On Sun, 17 Feb 2013 21:22:42 -0500, wrote:

On Sun, 17 Feb 2013 19:47:25 -0500, "Stormin Mormon"
wrote:

Sleeve of DVD costs about $25 and has 450 gb of space. Totally unable to
corrupted by a virus or trojan that comes along later. What does a 450 gb
external drive cost? Can it get a trojan later, and die like my two external
drives?

Just bear in mind "burned" media is not archival. I have some 10 year
old CDs that do not read anymore. They were stored in jewel cases in a
CD box in a cabinet
And I have some over 15 years old that still read just fine. In fact
I've never seen one that doesn't read now that read properly upon
completion that is not scratched.in the last 15 or more years. In the
real early years there were some "semi transparent" discs that lost
their reflectivity and were unreadable within months. And some older
readers could not read a burned disc, even the day it was written.