On Jul 17, 2007, at 12:52 PM, Paul G. Allen wrote:
CDs, especially CDRs and RWs have a very short shelf life, IIRC 3-5years. Magnetic tape has a far longer life and in case of fire, the tapecase will melt and burn before the tape itself does (the problem is if/when the case melts all over the tape, encasing the tape in a coffin).
It's a damned shame that high-capacity tape drives cost so much...I really miss having a good tape backup at home that wasn't fragile (i.e., my external hard drives are fast and capacious, but you can drop a tape cartridge with far fewer consequences than dropping a hard drive.)
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