RE: Digital vs.FILM: will digital cameras lose the war?

[Alan Abbott]

>I keep my images on a RAID system, so individual disk life is a non
issue.
>Any critical data is handled this way.    Think about all the
>companies/institutions/etc. that need to keep data for long peroids of
time.
>There are systems to do this, and the data is 100% preserved.

We had a saying,
'To keep data for a few months, use DAT/DLT'
'to keep data for a few years, USE optical'
'To keep data for longer use Paper!'
Alan