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Re: [ARSCLIST] The state of cassette tape
A careful study is badly needed on the stability of stand-alone hard drives
for long term storage. The issue was raised here a few months ago about the
long-term lifetime of these devices. Remember also that their content is
magnetic, subject to all those issues.
My feeling is that, for long term storage, the fewer moving parts, the
better. I'm sure a great number of previous formats (and the cassette and
DAT, present day) come to mind in which the not-easily-reached moving parts
can create havoc and more business for the likes of us. It's bad enough
with pads and springs. When motors enter the picure, things reach a new
level of maybe.
Steve Smolian
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From: "Don Cox" <doncox@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
To: <ARSCLIST@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Saturday, January 15, 2005 6:37 AM
Subject: Re: [ARSCLIST] The state of cassette tape
On 15/01/05, Steven C. Barr wrote:
Another possibility would be some sort of appliance into which one
could plug a hard drive and record content or retrieve content of
selected types. Since the need for actual program operations would be
minimal, all sorts of obsolete CPU's could be used as "brains." I just
saw an ad today that offered 160GB HD's for Cdn$99.95...that's about
$00.00000000025/byte... Steven C. Barr
Or about 40 cents to store a CD.
Regards
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Don Cox
doncox@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx
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