[Spridgets] OT - External hard drives

[chuck]

Hey Billy, I had that same prob with DVDs on which I burned old
TV shows. Later they would hang or skip. Then I started
burning way down low at about 6x. Have not had a prob since.
I think some players are over-sensitive.

Billy Zoom wrote:
>> back up to DVD
>>     
> I find that the discs I burn have a shelf-life. They don't always work a
> year or two later. I'm constantly trying to figure out better ways to
> archive digital music files. They don't age any better than analog tape,
> which is not very good these days. eSATA ports seem to be the fastest, but
> some people are having strange problems with degradation and poor sound
> quality. Nothing today seems to be a stable as forty year old analog tape.