[Gllug] Is this a silly (RAID) notion?

[Chris Bell]

On Mon 03 Dec, Riq wrote:
> 
> I would like to digress from the topic and expand on the remarks by John 
> Hearns about transporting magnetic tapes. I was involved in
> similar use of magnetic tapes at CERN in the 60s. The only problem we 
> had with temperature was leaving a tape in a car in the sun.
> But we had sometimes to bribe maintenance engineers to misalign a tape 
> drive to match the drive the tape was written on.

   There is a problem with cold tape collecting condensation.
> 
> On a more serious note, is anyone doing any research anywhere on how to 
> achieve 'infinitely' long-term digital storage?

   I have some 5 1/4 inch Magneto-Optical discs which are guaranteed to
retain data for at least 25 years. Unfortunately the drive died.





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