Not a unique situation for me to be in the minority.
CD-R, DVD-R can not be verified easily as to the integrity of the
archive. Shelf life both before and after burn are now known to be
well under what was promised. I have not seen one source of CD
hardware that isn't set on marketing the only issues as being speed
and size. What I care about is life.
So where I am right now is in external hard drive storage. Easily
refreshed and easily checked for quality of storage. For more size
and ease in transfer to the mirror I want compression. It just so
happens right now that the best compression is also free and open.
I see Windows 98 as of January will have no support. That is 4 years
after they first got it working with second edition until it was
buried. Support is a fiction.
Rich
--- In Jeremiah Moore <>
wrote:
> Storage is not the major choke point - bandwidth is. Lossless
> compression technology will find its best application in network
> transmission of material: speeding long distance collaboration and
> delivery.
>
> I agree with Walt vis a vis being conservative with formats for
> archiving. PCM bwav (broadcast wav) on well-stored commodity media
> (CD-R, DVD-R) with periodic re-copying is looking pretty future-
proof
> at this point.
>
> -j
>
>
> >Walter Knapp wrote:
> >
> >> We should not get into the mode of
> >> expecting infinite expansion of
> >> capacity with time. Some of the
> >> most data dense hard drives now are
> >> approaching putting each bit on only
> >> one particle of magnetic material
> >> in the disk coating. That's a limit
> >> that's going to be hard to get around.
> >
> >Not to worry:
> >http://www.pcworld.com/news/article/0,aid,113444,pg,4,00.asp
> >
> >Though most consumers aren't clamoring for more storage,
> >manufacturers continue to seek ways to build bigger drives.
> >
> >"The two most promising technologies in the labs today are
> >perpendicular recording and heat-assisted magnetic recording," says
> >longtime storage analyst Jim Porter, principal at Disk/Trend.
> >
> >Maxtor recently used perpendicular recording to store up to 175GB
per
> >hard-disk platter, surpassing today's maximum of 100GB. Instead of
> >storing data by magnetically orienting the particles on the
platter's
> >surface longitudinally along a circular track (like laying bar
> >magnets flat--some oriented north-south, others south-north--in a
> >circle), this scheme magnetically orients the particles
perpendicular
> >to the drive's surface (like a circle of bar magnets standing on
> >end). Perpendicular recording can pack data more densely, and could
> >spawn drives of 700GB, or roughly double the current maximum, in
two
> >to three years.
> >
> >Heat-assisted magnetic recording uses a more magnetically stable
disk
> >surface, allowing denser packing and increasing data stability.
> >Normally this requires a stronger write head to orient the
particles
> >of the disk's surface. But HAMR drives use a laser to heat the spot
> >being written to in order to make it easier to orient magnetically.
> >Seagate has demonstrated HAMR technology that it claims could
> >ultimately store 50 terabytes per square inch.
> >
> >However, warns Porter, such technology could be five to ten years
> >away. Data density is still growing at about 50 percent per year
> >using less-costly, conventional techniques.
> >
> >"The most important spec on any drive is price," says Porter. "None
> >of this [new] technology will turn into products as long as
> >manufacturers can produce conventional drives for less."
> >
> >
> >
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