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If you have manually fixed any broken products (which you may not have, but I have a few like this), then you would have to record and make the same fix again if you were to loose your local copy.
Also, if the product is changed (to correct fixes, make updates to older files, etc.) it could get repackaged, which might mean new thumbnails that would require recategorizing the product again. If it's just one it's not a big deal, and you probably want the updates anyway, but if suddenly you had a hundred products change on you at once (especially on top of dealing with whatever else is causing you to reinstall everything) it might be a bit of a time-consuming mess to reorganize all at once and in the meantime you may not be able to find a bunch of your content. If you use the same unchanged installers you originally used, you should theoretically end up with an unchanged content library.
LIke many others I do both, use dim, download zip's to hdd
The problem with burning to a CD or DVD or even BD is that they degrade over time and all your data is lost.
If you do burn you need a M-drive and M discs as these are good for archival periods, perhaps 100 years.
I have burned regular (non-M discs) CDs that were unreadable after a few years.
Greetings,
I mildly dispute the idea of CDs losing their data. Sure, degredation is a thing, but I have CDs I burned in the earliest days of prosumer CDRs, around 1992, that still are fully readable.
I don't know about you, but I'm doubting I'm going to care too much in 23 years if I still have that schoolgirl uniform for Genesis 3 that I downloaded... ;)
I'd be more concerned about finding a Blu-Ray drive, at that point. Hardware obsoletes way faster than media degrades...
-- Morgan
Greetings,
I mildly dispute the idea of CDs losing their data. Sure, degredation is a thing, but I have CDs I burned in the earliest days of prosumer CDRs, around 1992, that still are fully readable.
I don't know about you, but I'm doubting I'm going to care too much in 23 years if I still have that schoolgirl uniform for Genesis 3 that I downloaded... ;)
I'd be more concerned about finding a Blu-Ray drive, at that point. Hardware obsoletes way faster than media degrades...
-- Morgan
Be careful if you're considering using DVDs, SSDs, USB flash drives etc. for archival storage -- these technologies are not really designed for that job, and don't have very long lifespans. RW DVDs can fail after a couple of years, +R & -R last a bit longer. Flash drives can retain data for as little as 3 months to a year if left unpowered in a drawer or something. I had an SSD that was unpowered for 18 months, after which it was completely unreadable (it was resurrected and formatted as a new drive perfectly okay, but the data on it was lost).
Not saying don't use them, but just be aware of the limitations, and don't expect them to last forever.
Yeah, I've got stacks of floppies in a drawer and no way to read them. And as regards DVD, as a Mac user, I don'even have a computer-connected DVD player any more.
a USB 3.0 8TB HD can be have for just over $300
Archive your files, and backup to another device or cloud or both and you're done.
I still use punched cards to backup my Daz stuff. Lasts ages but you have to check you don't have silverfish.
How many warehouses do they occupy?
Just the one at the moment Richard
Greetings,
Sure... 100GB would be about (many erroneous calculations later) 78 feet long by 178 feet wide by 85 feet deep. That's a medium to big sized warehouse, right...?
;)
-- Morgan
80 bytes per card (approx.)
100,000,000,000 bytes
12,500,000,000 cards
cube root is ~2320.8
2320.8 cards in each of 3 directions.
Cards are (0.007" x 7.375" x 3.25") meaning (approximately) (16" x 17116" x 7543") or when reduced by a quarter three times and converted to feet: (85' x 178' x 78')...?
But that doesn't allow for random access.
Greetings,
Well sure, but it's just a backup, so that's okay. It'd take 95 years (of constant operation) to write with a single high-speed punch (250/min), but restoring would be a snappy 29 years with a high speed (800/min!) reader...
-- Morgan