| Rob Turk 2005-01-09, 8:45 pm |
| "sam" <samdjemel@yahoo.fr> wrote in message
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>I have to keep large archives, I 'm preoccupied by detoriation with time.
> What are the different magnetic media existing in data'archiving?
>
> ThanK You.
Your worry shouldn't be with the media, it usually outlasts the technology
it was written on. Twenty years from now your media will be just fine when
properly cared for, but finding a working drive that still reads them will
be a challenge. Especially these days where everything seems to be designed
to last the warranty time plus 1 month... Add to that having to re-create
the software environment that the tapes were once written in. Will your
32-bit software still run on 1024-bit
extra-stellar-lightspeed-beam-me-up-scotty CPU's in 2025? Or do you keep a
number of old clunker P4-3800's around just in case..
Until a reliable, everlasting, always backward compatible technology gets
invented, just take whatever is reliable and commodity today and plan for
migration every 5-10 years or so. LTO would probably be a decent start.
Rob
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