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Posted by Rick Merrill on 07/01/06 22:39
kitekrazy wrote:
> Bob wrote:
>
>> On Sat, 01 Jul 2006 07:27:15 -0400, Rick Merrill
>> <rick0.merrill@NOSPAMgmail.com> wrote:
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>>>> OK, then buy the most expensive discs, but let us know that you are
>>>> planning to do that so we will know.
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>>> And call back in 20 years to see how it all worked out!-)
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>> Pretty soon flash memory is going to be priced so cheaply that we can
>> afford to archive using it. For now the only safe way to know your
>> content will be around in 20 years is to put it on a hard disk.
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> No media is fail safe. I always keep back ups on portable drives. It
> would surprise me if flash memory replaced DVDs so some type of copy
> protection could be involved.
for real long term stoage use 'mirrors' - the data migrates to the
newsest and distributed media (hopefully!)
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