On 11/10/2014 10:59 AM, jdd wrote:
Le 10/11/2014 15:30, Anton Aylward a écrit :
As laptops are getting thinner one of the losses is a DVD drive. (the
but an external usb drive is around $20 (and dvd's are much cheaper than usb keys)$
notice that in my experience, usb keys are *much* more reliable than dvd's
It depends on how you do the accounting. A stack of 50 DVDs costs about the same in my local computer discount stores as a 16G USB stick. Or a little less than an el-cheapo 32G SD card on ebay. Since I've arranged so much of my FS in 5G partitions they map nicely onto the DVDs. Since some are a good deal less than 5G occupied I can often put 3 or 3 on a DVD at present. In a years or so of growth that may change. But then again, I may do some pruning. So for less than $10 I have a year's worth of backup media. BACKUPS ARE NOT ARCHIVES http://www.factorydirect.ca/Canada-Ontario-/Recordable_Media/Dvd/Dvd-R_Rw/HP... or even http://www.factorydirect.ca/Canada-Ontario-/Recordable_Media/Dvd/Dvd-R_Rw/TD... that's C$15 for 500G of storage. if I go for the no-name media it works out even cheaper. Now of you are talking ARCHIVE storage as opposed to backup of last iteration or two for disaster recovery, then that's another matter. Thanks to "the race to zero" archiving to the Cloud makes more sense. Heck, at $50 for a 1T drive its almost worth using rotating rust for archives. Image your drive and put the result in a bank vault ... that's pretty near as cheap as bulk DVD. So the investment in a USB DVD writer makes sense. Among other things. -- A: Yes. > Q: Are you sure? >> A: Because it reverses the logical flow of conversation. >>> Q: Why is top posting frowned upon? -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org To contact the owner, e-mail: opensuse+owner@opensuse.org