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To: maceng2 who wrote (10185)	3/6/2005 11:47:22 AM
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I would say the woman who lost all her wedding photos, could have probably saved herself a lot of heartache by backing her photos up onto 20 cent CD-R's, instead of just relying on a company that would delete accounts without any hope of file recovery. There is no such thing as absolute safety when it comes to digital storage. There are only degrees of safety. A freebee on-line storage strikes me as the least safe, CDs come next, hard drives seem the safest to me, for a number of reasons. 1) When hard drives fail, data recovery is not only possible, it is probable. 2) When CDs fail, data recovery is sometimes possible, but not probable. 3) Free on-line storage is foolish -- without hard drive or CD backup -- given the free on-line data storage can go poof at the whim of the storage provider. As you stated, the cost of a 800MB CD is about 20¢, meaning about 25¢/GB. The cost of hard drive storage these days is about 50¢/GB. Just one example: pcmall.com Far it be for me to try and convince anyone to do anything, but my choice is to spend the extra quarter/gig to feel far safer with hard drive storage.