TrueDisc promises damage-resistant 'master copy' burning

Hi!

I'm Erich Ocean, the developer of TrueDisc. TrueDisc is simpler and provides much better protection (at the same amount of storage) as making multiple copies of a disc. Integration is currently *not* seamless, but it will be very soon. I will have more to say on this topic on my blog (blog.truedisc.com).

I sincerely appreciate all of the feedback. I have already made substantial changes to my timeline for rolling out features as a result of feedback here and on other sites. Keep the comments coming!

Best, Erich

It depends, it would be a nice option to have it automatically archive and PAR2 it.

Is this only for data corruption? Or for physical damage as well? Like, if I blow torch 90% of the disc will it still be accsessible? That would make it more attractive.

Anyone remember when all compact disks withstood a good amount of abuse?

You could also just burn multiple discs of your must-have data, could you not? Blank media is pretty cheap nowadays; if you just burned two copies of your important data instead of one, it'll take a long time before burning only one redundant copy with this app will pay for itself.

Unless its seamless integration (which I doubt it is) , you might as well just archive your data and have PAR2 split it and create recovery data, which you then burn (just like the newsgroups do it).

Don't jinx yourself Colin. It sound like its worth a try. I consider my data, mostly photos, Priceless. Disc damage and carelessness has only resulted in a few losses for me. I'd say less than 50 out of 20,000.

Non-proprietary like PAR and PAR2 files on a disc? It's a clever idea to have redundancy built in, but I for one don't really run into that kind of data loss problem very often -- and I even store all my burned discs in not-so-carefully-arranged piles or on cake box spindles ;-) Your money is probably better spent on a copy of Toast 8.