Re: source gold or platinum CDs for storage dig images, etc.

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From: Philip willarney (pwillarney@yahoo.com)
Date: 10/19/03-10:05:13 PM Z


Personally, I think the Sumerians may have had it
right -- think I could fit a clay tablet into my cd
burner?

multiple copies of any archive medium is good, and you
might want to use several different storage types if
you're really worried (e.g. how about CDR, DVD+RW, and
a hard drive) and plan, as well, to recopy the data to
new media at least every 5 years or so (you're quite
likely to see at least some data loss, at least a few
bits flipped or what have you, in 5-10 years with any
current storage medium -- plus the chance of finding a
way to read a 10 year old media gets slim! (even
today, how long would it take you to find a PC that
you could read a 5 1/4" floppy on?).

-- pw, who used to worry about this, but now worries
bout if the data will be readable tuesday next...

--- Dennis Moser <aldus@angrek.com> wrote:
> >Do any of you use gold or platinum CD-R or -RW CDs
> for long term storage of
<snip> ...

.. SNIP..

> It is, what we call in the "biz", a data migration
> plan.
>
> Dennis Moser, who in his day job is VERY much
> involved in the long-term
> stability of digital information...the "real"
> archives think in terms of
> hundreds of years!
>
> --
>
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> chief danger of the time"
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