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<blockquote data-quote="aroy" data-source="post: 514735" data-attributes="member: 16090"><p>One thing that I have noticed is that hard drives go bad if not used for a long time. It is recommended to spin them up at least once every three months. What I do is to copy the data from one drive to another overnight. That way I know when a failure is due. Long term archiving is best done on CD if volume is small, otherwise it is HDD. DVD deteriorate very fast.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="aroy, post: 514735, member: 16090"] One thing that I have noticed is that hard drives go bad if not used for a long time. It is recommended to spin them up at least once every three months. What I do is to copy the data from one drive to another overnight. That way I know when a failure is due. Long term archiving is best done on CD if volume is small, otherwise it is HDD. DVD deteriorate very fast. [/QUOTE]
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