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Offline Fred Basset

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Re: Using SanDisk Max Endurance series as personal archival media ?
« Reply #25 on: July 11, 2020, 08:53:42 am »
Thank you - I was going to suggest M-DISCs, as these are what I use.

Even though I trust the media for longetivity, the idea of keeping a not so reliable optical drive made me reluctant to use it.

For decades, all my optical drives starting from CD , DVD up to BD have failed on me, they simply not reliable.  :(

That is a good point.  Their longevity is predicated on drives always being around that can read them.  They have not caught on well enough for me to be confident of that.  I have everything on HDDs now anyway, the M-DISCs were supposed to be an emergency archive.  When the drives become unavailable then I think I will replace them with a different HDD.

Libraries now are facing terrible problems with archiving media that drives for are becoming increasingly difficult to find.  I can see me facing the same problem one day if I stick with M-DISCs.

If you have a decent connection to the internet, another possible solution is to simply upload the 2TB to several different storage companies.  Let them worry about compatability, obsolescence, reliability, etc.  One might go down, two at the same time is hard to believe, but three or more should be very safe indeed.
 

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Re: Using SanDisk Max Endurance series as personal archival media ?
« Reply #26 on: July 12, 2020, 02:34:45 am »
Just a question, at the option menu, in the "Hardware environment" section, I enabled all features, including the "Enable GPU acceleration", and took few test runs at each run at almost 10 mins, it seems like it doesn't utilize the GPU at all, as the GPU utilization indicator stayed flat at 0, fyi I use AMD RX580.

Does yours work using the GPU ?

As far as I know, my GPU is not supported.  But I would not use GPU acceleration whether supported or not because GPUs do not correct soft errors.
 

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Re: Using SanDisk Max Endurance series as personal archival media ?
« Reply #27 on: July 12, 2020, 05:26:18 am »
I have both amd and nvidia cards in my computer, multipar gpu acceleration launched on the nvidia but not the amd. And for nvidia only when I had cuda enabled on it. So I think it doesn't have opencl support. No time difference for 4gb file on my machine.
 

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Re: Using SanDisk Max Endurance series as personal archival media ?
« Reply #28 on: July 12, 2020, 05:32:07 am »
I have both amd and nvidia cards in my computer, multipar gpu acceleration launched on the nvidia but not the amd. And for nvidia only when I had cuda enabled on it. So I think it doesn't have opencl support. No time difference for 4gb file on my machine.

Thanks for sharing this  :-+ , guess its only for CUDA, I can live with that.

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Re: Using SanDisk Max Endurance series as personal archival media ?
« Reply #29 on: July 13, 2020, 02:23:02 am »
I usually use an old adage that was also repeated by Louis Rossmann: if a piece of data is not stored in three different places, it is considered lost.

I can't afford to have complete separation of places (at home, in the cloud and at a bank safe), but I leave copies in three different places - one of them is a four 3TB HDD RAID5.

Unfortunately the amount of significant data took a steep turn up (kids were born, then youtube channel) and therefore optical media did not cut anymore, leaving me only with HDD as a feasible solution.

That said, I have 25+ years old CDs recorded in 1x, 2x and 4x that have zero error till this day. I also happen to have a SCSI-2 80MB HDD that still works and has no more errors than its error table. Quite amazing, especially due to the doomsday scenarios of the 1990s regarding magnetic and optical media degradation. Streamer tapes were a disaster for us (1990s 120/250MB), the Iomega solutions were quite good (I was lucky) and I lost count of how many flash drives and pendrives I lost. With this, I still keep all that data on HDDs.
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