How often to open up your cabinet ?

[mitraark]

How much does a blower cost ? I asked in a shop, they quoted Rs 500, it's around 700 online, worth the price ?


I am sure i have more dust inside my cabinet than any of you, i live in a hostel, i haven't cleaned my room since last year, 3 intake fans pull in huge amount of dust, cleaned it on New Year, used a "Pichkari", and a table fan to blow off all the dust, it's really hard to clean it without opening anything with all the wires from SMPS and so many HDDs but i have to keep my PC running all the time ( Read: too lazy )

 

[anirbandd]

foly huck 7TB+2TB hdd

 

[Myth]

9tb total. lol.
That must be the local piratebay server

 

[tkin]

9tb total. lol.
That must be the local piratebay server

Hope he has backups, 250GB of anime lost, never again, dvds all the way

 

[anirbandd]

Hope he has backups, 250GB of anime lost, never again, dvds all the way

yeah.. i always burn priceless things onto DVDs.. like the full Disney Collection..

 

[Anorion]

DVDs flake after long storage
and go corrupt
store all critical data in the cloud

 

[anirbandd]

yeah in India with BSNL

 

[tkin]

DVDs flake after long storage
and go corrupt
store all critical data in the cloud

I use Verbatim DVDs

 

[Anorion]

Not a long term solution. Starts with small spots and edges. The heat and himidity exfoliate the layers. You have to keep em absolutely sealed.
Srsly, cloud is better than dvds as a long term storage solution, pls not to trust critical data to dvds, at least create data dumps and email em to yourself

 

[d6bmg]

thank you for your profound observations, but it was not a suggestion, it was an answer to the question

I use Verbatim DVDs

Only those imported Verbatim are good. I've 2 spindle of them along with 1 spindle of 'desi' Verbatim. Those imported ones are very good, but from the desi spindle I already found 5-6 damaged disks.

 

[tkin]

Not a long term solution. Starts with small spots and edges. The heat and himidity exfoliate the layers. You have to keep em absolutely sealed.
Srsly, cloud is better than dvds as a long term storage solution, pls not to trust critical data to dvds, at least create data dumps and email em to yourself

DVDs just for media, critical data is all synced using google drive

Only those imported Verbatim are good. I've 2 spindle of them along with 1 spindle of 'desi' Verbatim. Those imported ones are very good, but from the desi spindle I already found 5-6 damaged disks.

Mines the foreign one, from Singapore I think.

 

[anirbandd]

imported Verbatim DVDs? how are they compared to moserbaer/sony/frontech dvds? and cost of those and shop for buying please.

 

[tkin]

imported Verbatim DVDs? how are they compared to moserbaer/sony/frontech dvds? and cost of those and shop for buying please.

Got them from ebay and flipkart, now only ebay stocks them: Verbatim DVD-R Matt Silver 50pack 16x 4.7gb DVD AZO | eBay

PS: These guys(dvdstoredelhi) import them, last I bought these for 600/- per pack. But even @ 750/- these are worth it. The scans are beyond groovy: *www.thinkdigit.com/forum/reviews/153541-multi-dvd-cd-reviews.html

 

[anirbandd]

15/disc hmm.. it can be considered.. have to talk with my cousin.. he uses dvds..
@tkin, thanks!!