On Tue, 24 Jun 2008, Kendall Shaw wrote:

> One concern is that if I have my data in copies on different hard drives
> on different computers, it's still in my mind that I have to worry about
> hard drive failure and protecting my data. If it's on DVD, it's more
> likely that I will forget to make copies to protect against DVD
> disintegration (I've never made a copy of a copy of a DVD to protect
> against disintegration). I supposed that would be true of tape too.

If the DVDs are kept in a cool dark place with little temperature
variation they will probbaly last far longer than you will care about the
data on them.

> My impression is that the difference in disk drive cost and archival
> media cost is a crisis waiting to happen, for households.

It's already happening....

AB


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