Quadchuck
Well-known Member
how many times can you copy a file, wav,dts,etc and not worry about errors?
What can one do? I have 12TBs of music files on my server drives. Do you think they will all go to hell after 9 or 10 years?You are probably more likely to have files suffer bit rot after storage on both optical and hard discs over long periods.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/M-DISCPerhaps -I'm thinking about it...What can one do? I have 12TBs of music files on my server drives. Do you think they will all go to hell after 9 or 10 years?
I have faith in my Japan made TY cd and dvd discs - it’s the hard drives which I need to live off of for the rest of my life. I’m going to eventually sell off a ton of my vinyl and almost all of my CDs and even 5.1 discs when they are all long oop and somewhat desired.https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/M-DISCPerhaps -I'm thinking about it...
Let's all hope it remains the treasure that it is today for a long time to come.I have faith in my Japan made TY cd and dvd discs - it’s the hard drives which I need to live off of for the rest of my life. I’m going to eventually sell off a ton of my vinyl and almost all of my CDs and even 5.1 discs when they are all long oop and somewhat desired.
Bit rot is not on my agenda.
flac -t SomeFile.flac
flac -t *.flac
Infinitely providing your hardware is not faulty. I would imagine that lower level ram, slow speed drives, and such could effect transfers, especially when there is a large amount of date being copied. I copied some large hard drives and found my (older / slower) laptop was not as robust at the task, and I tended to go with my newer better desktop after that.how many times can you copy a file, wav,dts,etc and not worry about errors?
Your CD-Rs have had some issues or some of your CDs have? My CDs are all fine, I think. A few went bad years ago, but they were known as rotten batch pressings. CD-Rs on the other hand can be very stubborn rippers as the years roll on. I used really good TY Japan and nice cheap ones stored in cool dark rooms so I got really great rips 15 years later, but I am aware of those bad brand failures.Thanks for the responses.
I'm cleaning up my working drives( I have the original drives put away) and in trying to organize artists or music genre etc I sometimes
have to copy files more than once. I don't want to listen to every one of them, the biggest problem is CD discs go bad after a while.
Strangely I have CD discs that were tests and they have lasted with no problem and yet others that were final have gone bad.
Oh well, it's not like I have anything else to do
Your burner might not have fired them quite right. My Plextor which was the most expensive burner in 1999 would do perfect burns on the cheapest of discs. I think burn quality was high on this brand and it made a difference in longevity too.I wish they were bad brands, mine too were TY's , stored in a 300-400 discplayer in the house. failure rate is quite severe
Yet I have these TDK cd-rws that play fine same amount of time, who knows?
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