Posted by kitekrazy on 07/01/06 16:37

Bob wrote:
> On Sat, 01 Jul 2006 07:27:15 -0400, Rick Merrill
> <rick0.merrill@NOSPAMgmail.com> wrote:
>
>
>>>OK, then buy the most expensive discs, but let us know that you are
>>>planning to do that so we will know.
>
>
>>And call back in 20 years to see how it all worked out!-)
>
>
> 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.
>

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.

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