On Tuesday 10 January 2006 10:40 pm, you wrote: > On Tuesday 10 January 2006 01:54 pm, Gabriel Sechan wrote: > > From: Lan Barnes <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > > > >Slashdot pointed to this. Expert says burned CDs have an expected > > >lifetime of 2 - 5 years. > > > > > >http://computerworld.com/hardwaretopics/storage/story/0,10801,107607,00. > > >ht ml > > > > > >Bad news for those of us planning to pass photo albums to our kids in > > >30 years on CD. The suggestion to use mag tape is ... well, not very > > >practical and doesn't solve much, at least for the home user. > > > > > >We can hope he's wrong, but hope is a poor strategy, especially for back > > >up. > > > > > >Any thoughts? Hopefully CD-R isn't the last advance in storage > > >technology, but what to do while waiting for the cavalry to arrive? And > > >what was all that stuff about "blue laser"? > > > > Redundancy. CDs are cheap. Make 3 copies, keep at least one in a safety > > deposit box. Every 2 years, make 3 new copies, throw out the possibly > > degraded ones. If you have such a high failure rate 3 seems > > insufficient, scale up. > > > > Gabe > > Nah, put it on the web. > http://www.ourmedia.org/ > > “Only wimps use tape backup: _real_ men just upload their important > stuff on ftp, and let the rest of the world mirror it ;)” Linus Torvalds > > BobLQ "who has only important stuff is on the wayback machine." > http://web.archive.org/web/20011221142239/members.home.net/prencesita/
Oh dear, talking to myself again, but it is getting late and I have no place I am going to ... It seems to me that distributed storage on the net is the real long term answer. Build a system that simply requires everyone who wants to participate to give a gig or so to the net. Then build a fault tolerant encrypted file system on all that underlying storage. It does not have to be fast but it probably could be. Maybe they should give what they store plus ten per cent? Of course this is not a new idea. Freenet http://freenet.sourceforge.net/ Mnet http://mnetproject.org/ are starts on this sort of thing. Probably there are others I am ignorant of. Comments? BobLQ -- [email protected] http://www.kernel-panic.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/kplug-list
