"Joe Kotroczo" wrote in ...
"Richard Crowley" wrote:
"Soundhaspriority" wrote ...
"Richard Crowley" wrote ...
"Joe Boerst" wrote ...
Anybody have any opinions on the MAM-A Archive Gold CDR & DVD?
I have zero faith in the "archival" capabilities of ANY field-
writable optical discs. Doesn't matter what brand name or
fancy part numbers they use.
If you want to use CDR or DVDR for long-term storage, re-
write them every couple of years or forget it.
No serious backup is done on optical discs. It is virtually all
done
on digital magnetic tape.
Interesting article he
http://www.tgdaily.com/content/view/37073/113/
$50K per year just for power (not to mention hardware
maintenance & replacement) is hardly competitive with
passive magnetic tape. It also seems like a non-starter
in an era where they are banning incandescent lighting.
Storing 10 PB worth of magnetic tape in a climate-controlled archive
is not
cheap either.
But the $50K is IN ADDITION to the cost of security and
enviromental controls. (Which are orders of magnitude
less for tapes sitting in a cave).