In reply to: Anna Silliman, 19 Nov 2002 Hi Anna! Thanks for your reply,
> No media is infallible. "Magneto-optical" technology > is said to be more reliable than CD-R and is what > publishers, for example, use for archiving (long-term > storage offsite of backup copies of their works). I appreciate the tip about magneto-optical. I vaguely recall that I considered buying one back in I dunno '98 or something, but I never really found out much about them, and since at that time I just had the itsy-bitsy internal hard-drive that didn't have much on it to back up in the first place, so I succumbed to dumbness and bought a cheap used (refurbished) Zip. Later I got the CD-R recorder, and somewhere along the line an external SCSI drive (originally for backups, but now in everyday use 'cause I need the space), and then I guess I got side-tracked acquiring software, and I'd forgotten altogether about magneto-optical drives. Thanks for reminding me about them, and also the info about their archival use. (I hadn't known that) > I have a Fujitsu MO drive that I use for archiving > and I like it a lot. The removable media is said to > be good for 30 years...but as you point out in your > posting that may depend on conditions anyway. > And what if 30 years from now you no longer have a > drive that can read it?? True; that was one of my attractions to CD-R - so many zillions of CD *reader* devices have been made, I would imagine there will still be a measurable number of functional ones floating around in "used" or "specialty" or whatever markets, even after a decade or two (maybe I dunno, akin to how one now sometimes sees old obsolete stuff like 8-track players for sale, albeit in varying conditions). Or maybe not - I guess those lasers and stuff give out eventually, dunno 'bout that though. I may not be around in 30 years to find out, but 10 or 15 years probably :-/� You've got me interested in those MO drives now, though - I will look into that. > The solution is to have a reasonable number of backups > of different kinds in a variety of locations. That makes sense. Thanks again for helping me to sort this all out, - Jamie Marie . __________________________________________________ Do you Yahoo!? Yahoo! Web Hosting - Let the expert host your site http://webhosting.yahoo.com -- PCI-PowerMacs is sponsored by <http://lowendmac.com/> and... Small Dog Electronics http://www.smalldog.com | Refurbished Drives | -- Sonnet & PowerLogix Upgrades - start at $169 | & CDRWs on Sale! | Support Low End Mac <http://lowendmac.com/lists/support.html> PCI-PowerMacs list info: <http://lowendmac.com/lists/pci-powermacs.shtml> --> AOL users, remove "mailto:"; Send list messages to: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To unsubscribe, email: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> For digest mode, email: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Subscription questions: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Archive:<http://www.mail-archive.com/pci-powermacs%40mail.maclaunch.com/> --------------------------------------------------------------- >The Think Different Store http://www.ThinkDifferentStore.com ---------------------------------------------------------------
