On Fri, Jan 28, 2005 at 01:59:32PM -0500, Eric Dantan Rzewnicki wrote:
> what are some good options for long term archival storage?
There's only one: redundancy!
I don't know the answer to the question you're actually asking.
All the media I know of are either not great under typical,
less-than-ideal conditions (magnetic) or too new for there to be
much real-world data (optical) -- not that I've made much of a
study of it recently, I admit.
But whatever technology(ies?) you choose, making multiple copies
is excellent insurance.
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