Can't say I know what comes after DVD. The last I heard, the standards bodies were talking about increasing DVD storage capacity, presumably to store HDTV quality video.
Personally, I'm still a fan of the RAID array PLUS off-site backups on removable hard disk drives. I don't see the IDE compatible drives going away any time soon. There's been a technology competitor there for a while (SCSI), but that hasn't managed to supercede the good old IDE HDD in...what... 15 years? Plus, keeping your data available makes moving it to the next technology much easier. If all my images are on a DVD and I want them on a new format in 25 years, I have to find a DVD drive, load the images onto my HDD and then transfer them to the new media. If I kept them on live storage, however, this would happen pretty much automatically as I upgraded my storage servers. I'm interested in other thoughts, though... ===================================== Andrew Schuricht Consultant, Las Vegas Springs Preserve Project Do any of you happen to know what are the current and/or newest options for digital file migration? Meaning, somewhere down the road, let's say that CD/DVD storage of digital files becomes obsolete, what seems to be the new form for storing data? Currently, what are some of the optimum storage systems available? --- You are currently subscribed to mcn_mcn-l as: rlancefi...@mail.wesleyan.edu To unsubscribe send a blank email to leave-mcn_mcn-l-12800...@listserver.americaneagle.com
