[DM-MUG] long-term data storage

[Ray Bowler]

Here is a wild one. You don't say how large the total is but you 
might try this. Buy two good external firewire drives--500 GB say. 
Copy your material to both of them at the same time. When they get 
full (or in about three hears) buy two which are double in size, copy 
your material over and continue adding with the latest technology. Of 
course if the technology changes sooner than that switch when you 
need to do so.

Like I say--wild but it might work

I'm like Jon, I don't fully trust Iomega for long term sollutions. 
Their drives have caused too much trouble for others and for me.

At 11:52 AM -0500 8/22/06, Darcy Baston wrote:
>Thanks for this Jon.
>
>I'll be archiving anything and everything. I've got songs I've 
>written, videos I've taken, email, 10k+ photos, want to consolidate 
>install CDs for software etc. I'm looking for something more 
>long-term and convenient than having to move all the data to 
>whatever new media storage technology comes out. From what you're 
>saying, it's a nice fantasy but is difficult to realize.
>
>I'm also looking for a way to stop using a media storage solution 
>that requires so many individual pieces. It was great to go from so 
>many CDs to many fewer DVDs, but now those are piling up. The 
>counter pressure to that is that the more you have on any one media 
>object, the more you risk losing. Are we just stuck with having tons 
>of DVDs to avoid that situation, even with a higher capacity 
>solution?
>
>Iomega's claim is mathmatical based on submitting the cartridges and 
>drives to extreme conditions. You can learn more about that here:

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Ray Bowler

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