So let’s say a guy had a lot of stuff — like, a lot<\/i> of stuff — that he wanted to archive? My fellow nerds, I propose this question to you: what is the best way to archive a lot<\/i> of stuff? Here are the four factors I’ve come up with: time, cost, accessibility, and permanence. <\/p>\n

Let’s take the example of backing up 600gb of mp3s.<\/p>\n

CD-R<\/b>
\n00. Requirements: 925 blank CD-Rs.
\n01. Time: At 10 minutes each? 154 hours.
\n02: Money: $20 for 100 = ~$200
\n03. Accessibility: Accessible with proper filing system.
\n04. Permanence: ??<\/p>\n

DVD-R<\/b>
\n00. Requirements: 135 DVD-R Discs
\n01. Time: 23 hours.
\n02: Money: $20\/100 = ~$40
\n03. Accessibility: Accessible with proper filing system.
\n04. Permanence: ??<\/p>\n

Blu-Ray<\/b>
\n00. Requirements: 24 DVD-R Discs
\n01. Time: 2x so … ??
\n02: Money: 24x$10 = $240 + $200 for a burner.
\n03. Accessibility: Accessible with proper filing system (and a blu-ray drive)
\n04. Permanence: ??<\/p>\n

Hard Drives<\/b>
\n00. Requirements: 1 1TB Hard Drive.
\n01. Time: Hours? (Not hands on time.)
\n02: Money: $99 (this week; less in the future, no doubt)
\n03. Accessibility: Accessible with proper filing system.
\n04. Permanence: ??<\/p>\n

So really what it looks like is DVD vs. Hard Drives. Blank DVD’s would run me $40, but take 24 hours worth of burning. A Hard Drive would cost $100, but almost no time at all (I could start the file copy and walk away). <\/p>\n

One concern of course is reliability\/permanence. If I take either one of these solutions, stick them in the closet, and pull them out in five years, I wonder what the odds of each one retaining 100% of the data is?<\/p>\n

The other problem is, of course, I have much more than just 600gb of mp3s to back up. Let’s say I decided to rip every one of my DVDs (well over a thousand) to DivX\/XviD format and wanted to back those up as well. That’s another terabyte. <\/p>\n

So, what say you, nerds? Is HD > DVD or the other way around? What’s more important to you — time, or money?<\/p>\n

Another thing that makes me nervous as I amass more digital “stuff” is backing up all of this data. Do I burn\/copy all of these things in duplicate? Am I wasting my time and money by having two copies of all of this crap, or does that make sense?<\/p>\n

Part of me is considering building a giant(er) RAID to hold everything, and then backing all of THAT up to external hard drives. I’m doing that now with my mp3s, but not with anything else like movies or anything. I dunno … sometimes I think I may be getting a little weird when it comes to data loss (if that’s possible). <\/p>\n

Thoughts? Opinions? Advice? Donations?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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