[Gllug] Viable back-up solutions for gigabytes?

[Chris Bell]

On Sat 04 Sep, Martin A. Brooks wrote:
> 
> Richard Jones wrote:
> 
> > * Cheap (media and drive).
> >  
> >
> Cheap is a relative term.  You'll pay the thick end of £1000 for a 
> decent DLT drive. However, if you did lose all your photos, would it 
> cost you more or less than £1000 to replace them?
> 
> >Ideas?  Is tape still the way to go, or should I be better off looking
> >at DVD{+,-}{R,RW}?
> >  
> >
> Writeable media such as this degrades over time - a comparatively short 
> time.
> 
   Many years ago I purchased a magneto-optical drive with several discs.
The media was guaranteed minimum 25 years data retention, nuclear blast
proof, etc, but the discs were only 512/1024 MB, and the very expensive
drive died within a comparatively short time.
   

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Chris Bell

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