IS IT SAFE TO PLAY BACKUPS ONLINE

[roryson]

Just like the title says, is it safe to play backups online..?
Cheers people..

[suckitmam]

I'd thought about it myself too. Most good backup sites I've seen have two remote sites that backup your data, so if one site has crashed, the data is still at another site. If its a small just started out data site, I'd be worried about being hacked. Also think about your data being timed out, cutting your data short and being useless what ever you uploaded.

Personally, Im going to start backup on Compact flash cards and Sd cards. I'm in texas so only thing I have to worry about is heat. So I will always have them in a moisture free place. High moister, i'd invest in some moister sucking meterials or dip them in oil. Here's what I found.

Rob Galbraith, who maintains an amazing website on CompactFlash and SecureDigital cards, says

Individual flash memory cells have a limited lifespan. That's the bad news. The good news is that their lifespan is usually measured in the many, many thousands of erase/write cycles, and that card controllers utilize an algorithm that balances the wear across the entire card's cells. CompactFlash and SD/SDHC cards are designed to automatically and transparently map out memory cells that go bad, or in some cases when they reach a predefined limit.

Write cycles are important, but MTBF (mean time between failures) is often 1M-2M hours or more, factoring in advances such as wear leveling, bad-block marking and management, etc.
Tips

• Do not defrag a memory card. This consumes write/erase cycles and shortens the MTBF.
• Use FAT32 instead of a journaling file system (like NTFS), which will write more often.
• SD cards are rated to hold data at something like 10 years sitting idle. I recall reading (not sure where) about re-energizing cards by occasionally inserting into a reader.

[ck-ok]

Just like the title says, is it safe to play backups online..?
Cheers people..

yeah it is

[roryson]

Cheers again CK-OK

[That Guy]

Yep can't beat a good game of Mario Kart online

[roryson]

, not got mario cart yet...

[That Guy]

, not got mario cart yet...

Its a MUST for any Wii owners

We could get a Mario Kart tournament going on here

[roryson]

LOL, just wondered. is there any loss of picture quality whan u copy a game..?

[That Guy]

Nope

Should be a direct 1:1 copy, why not buy a hard drive and load the games from that? Will save you a fortune in bank dvds .

[roryson]

i can only use a harddrive to play games off as my black wii's drive wont play backups.. pitty..

[monstrofort]

I think it's better for the Wii to play with ame on HDD, the DVD lens should be "save". I use my "hold" white Wii (2 years old) with an external HDD... No more broken lost or broken DVDs (I have a 8 years old son...)
(Excuse me for approximate English, I'm French...)

[jo_arce02]

this is good information... thanks

[FXless]

playing by hdd is safe and loads faster