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On Sat, 7 Sep 2013 11:29:02 -0400, iBoaterer wrote:

CD's have already made it to the obsolete bin!

Storing content on little bits of plastic is going the way of the
buggy whip.
The Blue Ray machine may be the last gasp of that technology and I am
not biting.

Same here, never have. Netflix!

Spinning magnetic media only has the advantage of being cheap but it
is cheap so you can afford redundancy.
There is no reason these days that you are not running RAID arrays for
any data you really want to keep.
I have 2 arrays on this machine alone.
Anything I really care about is mirrored on other machines anyway.

Financial stuff is on a removable drive that is only plugged in when I
am using it, copied to a back up and both stored away.

I bought a 2 terabyte portable drive for all of my work and financial
files, etc. I also have a solid state seagate for daily backup.