Are There Really No Fail-Safe Storage Mediums?
#spacer{clear:left}#abc #sidebar{margin-top:1.5em}zSB(3,3)Join the Discussion – BTINAZ has posted in the Mobile Office Forum the following: “The Mobile Office Newsletter asked about favorite external storage solutions. There are none! I recently learned the dirty little secret of the computing industry that I’ve never seen discussed in the 15 years I’ve been using a PC: there is not a single storage medium that is fail-safe. I’ve lost data from three rotating sets of zip disks and from two alternating CD-RW’s (which had been used for only a few months…and were a ‘name’ brand, not the store junk that’s good only for coasters!). A draftsman friend of ours had his external hard drive crash at the same time his internal drive crashed, so he lost all of his plans, projects and drawings. I subscribe to many print and e-mail computing newsletters and magazines, but I have NEVER seen any discussion of this, except to make multiple backups, as I had always done. That’s not good enough. The Ma
