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[DarkPrince_92]

Am I crazy for having no Dragon Ball stuff on an external hard drive and just having the DVDs?

Yes. Obviously you have money to burn.

[dprez]

Am I crazy for having no Dragon Ball stuff on an external hard drive and just having the DVDs?

Yes!! Discs have a life span like everything else, and eventually they will succumb to disc rot. You should have them digitally backed up so you can burn them forever and ever. =D

Guess I'm crazy to.

I'll probably end up making back ups sooner or later now.

[OutlawTorn]

Am I crazy for having no Dragon Ball stuff on an external hard drive and just having the DVDs?

Yes!! Discs have a life span like everything else, and eventually they will succumb to disc rot. You should have them digitally backed up so you can burn them forever and ever. =D

Should I worry about CD rot and DVD rot?

Should I worry about CD rot and DVD rot?

CD rot, also known as CD bronzing, has been an issue with certain discs manufactured from the late 1980s to the early 1990s. A thin layer of lacquer on the label side of the disc protects the reflective data layer. In CD-ROMs and Audio CDs — Compact Disc Digital Audio (CDDA) — the reflective data layer is normally aluminum. If the lacquer is damaged, applied improperly, or formulated incorrectly then the reflective data layer may become exposed, leading to aluminum corrosion. The corrosion of the reflective data layer is the phenomenon described as "CD rot" and results in data loss and playback issues.

While the lacquer-related manufacturing problems have been resolved, one should protect the label side of their CDs from damage: the label side, rather than the clear side, is the most vulnerable.

A testament to the durability of Audio CDs is a natural aging study conducted by the Library of Congress. The study found discs that, despite exhibiting both unacceptable levels of BLER and uncorrectable errors, remained playable and failed to exhibit noticeable audio defects.

DVD rot has been debunked as a chronic problem, yet it remains a persistent urban legend. While there have been documented cases of deterioration in specific discs, they appear to be the result of poor manufacturing. Improper storage and handling can damage DVDs. In particular, excessive bending, such as when removing a DVD from its case, can result in delamination, the physical separation of the DVD's layers where they are glued together.

[BlazingFiddlesticks]

Nothing at the moment, I don't have a hard drive large enough to hold all my DBoxes (I don't have Box Two for obvious reasons, so that saves me a few dozen gigabytes) and still be at over half capacity. I would like to do it at some point, just because of the whole "Dragon Boxes will be expensive as frig to replace" thing.