A freak accident later, now I am very much worried for my data.
I have (or may be had) a Samsung DVD-ROM. I put in a CD and started installing a software from it. In the middle of installation, I heard a shattering sound and installation stopped responding. I was wondering what happened and clicked on open tray button!
It was then that I realised that the sound was of breaking of the CD-ROM!! It got shatterred to pieces!! I removed as many pieces as I could. Later even opened the drive and removed more pieces. But some of the pieces are still stuck in there. I will have to give it to a service center.
However, the point here is - how safe is the data backed up on a CD/DVD? Fortunately, the CD-ROM that broke had come with a magazine and was only carrying installation files of some softwares. But if CD-ROMs or DVD-ROMs can break this way in drives how unsafe the data really is!! This has happened for the first time with me. Till now, I used to think that if I take proper care of my CDs/DVDs, they will last a life time. But how wrong I was! Even if I have 3 copies, all can break! This freak accident has changed my outlook towards digital backup of data. I now realise the importance of keeping multiple copies of important data and have started fearing putting in important single copy CDs in the drives!
April 8th, 2006 at 12:05 pm
I had a friend who came to me with his CD drive with a cracked CD which had some private photos of his honeymoon. Imagin…lossing those photos..
Apperantly there is no solution than keeping data on GMAIL.
April 9th, 2006 at 12:04 pm
Use the Hard Disk, and to move data use USB, flash drive or pen drive
Nice Blog
April 10th, 2006 at 12:30 am
2 GB is anyway not enough for me. I have lots of data and hundreds of CDs/DVDs. The moot point is the safety of data on CD/DVD. We all assume that it going to be with us forever till it gets scratched!! Isn’t it? But that is simply not true
April 10th, 2006 at 4:10 am
April 13th, 2006 at 1:20 am
BTW i thought of a small data of just few contacts, .doc, .xls, .rar etc. files.
Very sorry for….
May 30th, 2006 at 7:15 pm
See even god’s creations (us humans) are not perfect!!! Then how can imperfect people (us) create perfect gadgets. That the CD broke is not because it is a Samsung and not a Sony. Just call it bad luck. There is only one way to keep damn important stuff safe. Keep multiple copies, like on a CD and a DVD and a Flash Drive and your HDD as well… So, start backing up…