I think it is much better to migrate to external hard drives (rather using CDs/DVDs) or massive storage. Depending on how much space you need, 1TB external hard disk costs less than $200. Rather than trusting the failure rate of massive storage (usually expensive), I would rather have multiple copies of data over cheap hard disks/servers. (Thinking about how Google built its clustered PC).
Yan -----Original Message----- From: mcn-l-boun...@mcn.edu on behalf of Leslie Johnston Sent: Fri 10/17/2008 8:14 PM To: mcn-l at mcn.edu Subject: [MCN-L] digital media migration All, I'd be interested in hearing from anyone who has recently taken on a media migration project, e.g., retrieving legacy digitization output files from data CDs and DVDs, external hard drives, etc., for transfer to live disk and/or tape. I'm particularly interested in what sort of transfer stations other institutions have built for this purpose. I do not yet have an exhaustive inventory of what media we might be working with, but we suspect it's predominantly CDs burned over a 15 year period. The formats are primarily image files, although there are of course audio, video, PDF, and text files as well. Leslie ---------- Leslie Johnston Digital Media Project Coordinator Office of Strategic Initiatives Library of Congress 202-707-2801 lesliej at loc.gov _______________________________________________ You are currently subscribed to mcn-l, the listserv of the Museum Computer Network (http://www.mcn.edu) To post to this list, send messages to: mcn-l at mcn.edu To unsubscribe or change mcn-l delivery options visit: http://toronto.mediatrope.com/mailman/listinfo/mcn-l
