Hi. On Tue, 18 Mar 2014 21:03:17 +0000 PAPYRUS TECHNOLOGIES <a...@cityscape.co.uk> wrote:
> I realise (and I'm sure Myceneaen Magic does too) that we have let our > commercial interests override our responsibility to help and advise > users of the Debian OS. The thread drifted after I posted a serious > comment about the longevity of stored data on CD, DVD and USB media. I > realise now it could have been couched in better terms and promise to > up the standard of my responses and make amends in future. Ok, so, we're back on the track. Good. > So Reco, my friend, how do CD, DVD and USB media compare? We would > welcome your input on this; will my family photographs or the deeds to > my house be viewable on these modern devices in a thousand years time? CD - you can read the thing after it gathered dust for 10 years. Personal experience for both CD-R and CD-RW. An amount of information can be stored is unreasonable by today's standards. DVD - you can read the thing after it gathered dust for 5 years. Personal experience for both DVD-R and DVD-RW. An amount of information can be stored is unreasonable by today's standards. BD - no personal experience with those. USB drives - ok, but will require periodic poweron/poweroff cycle. MTBF is less as of the modern HDD, which is not much again. So, for a long-term storage one is basically left with the same thing as 20 years ago, i.e. - tapes. LTO5s go for $10 each on eBay, providing you with 1.5Tb per tape. A cost of LTO drive is painful somewhat ($1500 ), require an additional SAS or SCSI controller, but this is one-time investment basically. Reco -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: https://lists.debian.org/20140319021800.b83bb2d1b7809ef574b24...@gmail.com
