BLOGGER TEMPLATES AND TWITTER BACKGROUNDS
Showing posts with label Maintenance your optical disc. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Maintenance your optical disc. Show all posts

August 3, 2009

Back up for easy

Backup is the ideal solution and it is important to confront the threat of data loss. Other advantages, can protect from the problems that often arise, such as viruses, damage to hardware or hard disk, or formatting errors or accidentally erased. The main problem in back up activity is not the complexity but on the discipline. Do the best back-up media in a separate, verified and protected well. To back up personal data, no need expensive hardware and back up media, such as tape back ups, SAN server, or back up the server, simply use the CD / DVD writer or Blu ray driver, and the medium price is quite cheap compared to flash . CD-R and DVD or Blu Ray has Characteristics WORM (Write Once Read Only). This means you can write data only once to a CD or DVD-R and can not be changed, different with hard disk that can be written and read repeatedly. WORM characteristics has actual benefits, which data can not be destroyed through the software. This benefit when the computer is infected with the virus, the data in the hard disk successfully changed by the virus, but data on CD or DVD is not changed by the virus can be. If you want to have flexibility, such as hard disk, use the CD / DVD-RW media.
Other solution is online backup. Quite a lot of websites on the internet network that provides for you to store data online, for example, or www.mediamax.com www.idrive.com or not or if you just use email, because email is now the capacity that is large enough and you certainly have more than one email.

July 19, 2009

Maintenance your optical disc

An institute in the United States, NIST (National Institute of standards and technology) has conducted research in the archiving optical disc (CD / DVD / BRD) scientifically. This tip is so that data can be stored for a long time.

  • Put in the upright position, this is to avoid the growth of fungi.
  • Use cleaning fluids that are free of ink. Clean with a cotton cloth do clean / towel in the optician's to the outside. Use alcohol to clean the stain is heavy.
  • Do not touch the area, hold on the middle and outside edge, do not bend.
  • Use only when you want to play it.
  • Open the CD or DVD empty from packaging just for burn only.
  • Store in cool & dark room (free of cigarette smoke, does not avoid the car in direct sunlight.
  • Use good quality media, usually famous & expensive optical disc, for example; Taiyo yuden, sony, verbatim, mitsubishi chemical