XPost: alt.comp.os.windows-11   
   From: TJ@noneofyour.business   
      
   On 2025-02-16 08:39, Daniel70 wrote:   
   > I've got a PVR who's HD is getting pretty full (90%+) with programs I'll   
   > want to watch some day ... so I was thinking about coping some of the   
   > 'Keeper' programs onto DVD which meant buying a spool of DVD's.... but   
   > then needed to check if I needed DVD-R or DVD+R disks. (It is DVD-R)   
   >   
   I remember the problems of working with floppies, and the advertised   
   claims that DVDs would outlast me in storage, so I took to using them   
   for archival storage - until I found the ones I had burned were   
   deteriorating just a year later.   
      
   I find commercially-produced DVDs hold up very well indeed, but   
   home-burned ones, not so much. Not only that, but each single-layer DVD   
   holds just a bit under 5GB, meaning that I was amassing a LOT of burned   
   DVDs.   
      
   I switched to an external hard drive, and never looked back. A 1 TB   
   drive that I can hold in the palm of my hand can hold as much as roughly   
   200 DVDs, it's faster to write on/to, and it lasts for a very, very long   
   time.   
      
   My newest desktop build doesn't even have an optical drive, and I took   
   the optical drives out of my laptops to replace them with a second hard   
   drive. I put one of those optical drives in an external USB case for   
   that maybe once a year when I want to use one.   
      
   And I don't miss them, even a little bit.   
      
   TJ   
      
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