weak WEAK WEAK!!! so pissed

[equate975]

So a few months back, I burned my 400gb worth of tv shows and such. This is after the second fatal HD crash I had when I lost EVERYTHING.

Well, I go to copy some of the dvds today for my parents, and HALF OF THEM DONT FUCKING WORK #*(#*^@(*&^#@*&#&*&@#*&$

IM SO PISSED right now. It was months and months of work to get all that shit, and its fucking gone now. Most of the DVDs I just get CRC errors on or it just locks up any computer I put them into.

The ONE TIME I actually back stuff up, delete it, then the god damn backups are destroyed.

Does anyone have any good ideas for long term backups? All these dvds degraded over a few months so they are unusable. So much for sony... I tested most of the DVDs after I burned them, namely my Rome dvds, which I can't even read now... worked perfect before.

The only thing I can think of is just buy more HDs. But thats pretty expensive and seems like a waste. I wish SSDs were cheap already.

[shiboujin]

MPAA and RIAA hax0red your stuff!

[LivingLegend06]

Burn them onto actual DVDs. Cheap and reliable, although a hard drive should be reliable as well.

[Jand3rson]

Somebody lost all their pron...

[Justin B]

haha, I was pissed a few (several actually) years ago when I had some little 10gb hd full of MP3's, not backed up, collected since the real napster days, and I had the wonderful Idea of making a windowed hard drive. Got to take the top off, keep dust out, cut it, and put plexiglass in or something. I forget. Anyway, it turned into a large paper weight, woops :P

[AlarmedBread]

buy SD cards in bulk, they take up less space than a dvd and hold just as much porn. ;)

[bolognablake]

Dude, you can get a 1TB external HD for ~$200 bucks now.

BACK UP YOUR JUNK. OFTEN.

This has been a public service announcement provided by your local jerk. Thank you.

[e30Matt]

Knock on wood, but I'm about to replace the system drive in my desktop after 5 or 6 years of service. It's one of the first 7200rpm 40GB Western Digitals. I've got that teamed up with a second 160GB internal drive and a new 250GB Seagate external, each with backups of important info.

[s0urce]

Acronis True Image will save you next time.

[AndrewBird]

I don't see how a DVD could go "bad" if all it did was sit around. Unless it was exposed to extreme temperatures or got scratched or something, it shouldn't go bad.

[equate975]

I don't see how a DVD could go "bad" if all it did was sit around. Unless it was exposed to extreme temperatures or got scratched or something, it shouldn't go bad.

They start degrading from when they are first made. DVDs usually have a shelf life of about 5 years.

Yes I DID verify the data after I burned it (on my laptop so it was a different computer) and they worked fine. Since then they have just been sitting in a binder in my drawer.

I guess I will just get a big HD, back it all up, then unplug it and put it away. Aside from SSDs its the best way to go.

[equate975]

zOMG YOUR LIFE SUCKS IHAVE SO MUCH SYMPATHY FOR YOU CAN WE HUG AND MAKE EACHOTHER HAPPY?

Thanks for not hotlinking that so I could change the picture on you bitch, ;)

I don't see how that picture is relevant, but whatever gets you off man....

[ia_e30]

redundancy is key! Get an external 1TB and backup once a week or more. I have everything important in at least 3 places.

[Jand3rson]

They start degrading from when they are first made. DVDs usually have a shelf life of about 5 years.

That's crap. That would make them pretty much disposable. I've got DVD's that I've had since high school, and I graduated in '98. They still play perfectly.

[bolognablake]

That's crap. That would make them pretty much disposable. I've got DVD's that I've had since high school, and I graduated in '98. They still play perfectly.

I believe he's talking about pigment-based burned DVDs, not commercial DVD that are made from a master copy.