Except pirating and or giving away of infinite goods tends to help the sale of scarce goods...
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Originally Posted by 0utf0xZer0
I actually still use DVD-R as my primary means of storing stuff because there's not way in hell I'd trust my collection to a single hard drive and I can't afford a redundant setup.
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If you look around a bit you can get get 1 TB drives for ~$80 a piece. Put 3 or 4 into a RAID 5 array and profit. Most decent motherboards can handle raid 5 (not sure how well). That amounts to ~$.12/GB of usable space (rated) with a 1 disk failure tolerance.
That is about 2x more than the cheapest DVD-R price I found--it ends up being about $.05/GB - $.06/GB depending on shipping etc. However, that does not included bad disks, failed burns, storage space and the hassle of burning a bunch of DVD's.