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Re: [OM] Data Rot

Subject: Re: [OM] Data Rot
From: Chuck Norcutt <chucknorcutt@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Fri, 27 Mar 2009 08:12:03 -0400
Thanks.  I'd never heard of the titanium disk either.  I wish they'd 
have gone a but further to describe the longevity problem discovered 
there.  Maybe it's only that permanent media don't do you any good 
without the (perhaps very unique and aging) read device.

Chuck Norcutt


Jay Drew wrote:
> While looking for other things I came across this article concerning the
> degradation of media for data storage:
> 
> http://pogue.blogs.nytimes.com/2009/03/26/should-you-worry-about-data-rot/?hp
> 
> I'd never heard of the titanium disk at Livermore Lab.
> Data storage technology changes have us taking data from an existing format 
> and
> then pushing it onto the new format.  Copy all those VHS home movies to 8mm,
> then push them to DVD, and now to then next generation.  Chisel into granite 
> is
> the next move I guess.
> 
> JD
> 
> Hand me my costume 
> Please won't you pass me my mask
> I have appointments I must keep with my past.
>  
> Bill Nelson - Beauty Secrets
> 
> 
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