On Apr 27, 2006, at 9:14 AM, Jostein wrote:
Whatever media one choose, it has to be renewed regularly. Question is
how
often. Every five years seems to be a good number to me. I gravitate
towards
this because it's a number that has been mentioned for life-time
expectancy of
both CD/DVDs and for harddrives, and also because I tend to change
computers
about every five years. When changing computers, chances are that one
would hit
the transition period as well, I hope.
In five years at Photographic Solutions, we watched four storage
formats arrive, gain popularity and vanish. I still get calls from
people who've heard I have a cartridge DVD-RAM drive who want all their
data copied.
-Aaron
