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Sent: Wednesday, July 28, 2010 2:19 PM
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Subject: RE: Tape vs. external drive reliability?
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From: Erik Goldoff [mailto:egold...@gmail.com]
Sent: Wednesday, July 28, 2010 11:05 AM
To: NT System Admin Issues
Subject: RE: Tape vs. external drive reliability?
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To: NT System Admin Issues
Subject: Re: Tape vs. external drive reliability?
Very good point. In my world, long term storage is 12-24 months. After
that, the projects we work on are totally out of date, and replaced by newer
campaigns.
On Jul 28, 2010, at 10:56 AM, Erik Goldoff wrote:
Very good point. In my world, long term storage is 12-24 months.
After that, the projects we work on are totally out of date, and
replaced by newer campaigns.
On Jul 28, 2010, at 10:56 AM, Erik Goldoff wrote:
> One thing to keep in mind for ‘long term’ archival is tape format
> and drive
One thing to keep in mind for ‘long term’ archival is tape format and drive
availability.
On older tapes I’d had problems reading from a newer but ‘downward
read-only’ compatible drive, as head alignment can become an issue.
With removable hard drives, the heads ( and their alignment) go with the
I have found that tapes can be more safely maintained over a long period of
time than can disk.
Environment, accidental dropping, amount of data per square inch, tampering,
etc...
Too bad that optical technology hasn't really kept up. That would be the
best medium of all.
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