- Original Message -
From: Shawn K.
Subject: RE: Implications for Film (storage opinions)
Well, its bad to store records lying flat, probably bad for CD's
too. I've
had to use the spindles though as I've got literally hundreds of
CDR's
around here, though the most important ones
Quite frankly, my negatives are in a jumble but my files are on CD.
When it goes out of style, I'll copy them over to the new medium.
Presumably, this won't happen while I'm sleeping ;-) OTOH, a library
might find such a switch more daunting. For this reason, any new medium
is also going to
Storing data on multiple hard-drives is the best way to go IMO... Actually,
having a networked computer working as a dedicated server with a RAID array
is the best way to archive anything. Yes, it's expensive... ish.. I built
a P3 950 from almost nothing for about 250 dollars and I have it
On 25 May 2004 at 14:11, Shawn K. wrote:
Storing data on multiple hard-drives is the best way to go IMO... Actually,
having a networked computer working as a dedicated server with a RAID array is
the best way to archive anything. Yes, it's expensive... ish.. I built a P3
950 from almost
I think redundancy is the key. Just have backup offsite.
-Original Message-
From: Shawn K. [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: Tuesday, May 25, 2004 6:39 PM
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: RE: Implications for Film (storage opinions)
Hi mark,
That sounds like a terrible situation
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Sent: Tuesday, May 25, 2004 6:48 PM
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: RE: Implications for Film (storage opinions)
On 25 May 2004 at 14:11, Shawn K. wrote:
Storing data on multiple hard-drives is the best way to go IMO...
Actually,
having a networked computer working as a dedicated
-Original Message-
From: Rob Studdert [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: Tuesday, May 25, 2004 8:29 PM
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: RE: Implications for Film (storage opinions)
On 25 May 2004 at 19:08, Shawn K. wrote:
Well Rob, from what I've heard the government uses hard drives to archive
Speaking of Canberra, seem to recall some very interesting systems at
CSIRO's Black Mountain Complex. Still exist?
Otis Wright
Rob Studdert wrote:
On 25 May 2004 at 19:41, Shawn K. wrote:
Alright, lets just say I know someone in the government and this someone
says that the government uses
On 25 May 2004 at 23:33, Otis Wright wrote:
Speaking of Canberra, seem to recall some very interesting systems at
CSIRO's Black Mountain Complex. Still exist?
I've only ever been involved in the ABC/SBS broadcast side of the comms tower,
I really don't know what else they've got going on
On 25 May 2004 at 23:09, Otis Wright wrote:
No matter which media you prefer, keeping your data all in one location
or on one media system carries a risk that I would prefer to avoid.
Just my opinion based on the dozen or so catastrophic data loss
occurrences I deal with each year.
- Original Message -
From: Shawn K. [EMAIL PROTECTED]
(snip)
I have had cd's that were guaranteed to last
90 years go bad after 2 years. They were kept on my desk on a spindle,
some
of the disks at the bottom of the spindle went bad, oh well. I didn't
lose
anything important
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