[Gllug] re: backups

john at sinodun.org.uk john at sinodun.org.uk
Mon Sep 6 07:18:21 UTC 2004


[snip]
> This is yet another case of "you get what you pay for"!  I now only use
> branded disks.

As a man who has burnt a lot of CDs in his time (!!) I second this.  Buy
quality CD-Rs (Taiyo Yuden are the best) and burn them at a slow speed
(max 8x) if you want reliability.

When you're buying CD-Rs 10,000 at a time you really notice even a 1%
failure rate.

John

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