[arachne] Re: Backups (was Re: What is "cloud computing" ???
- From: "Greg Mayman" <gmone@xxxxxxxxxx>
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- Date: Tue, 16 Dec 2008 16:19:15 +0930
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On Mon, 15 Dec 2008 20:23:31 -0500, L.D. Best wrote:
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> Plug-in disk HDDs aren't something I would necessarily trust ... if
> you're not using it, if platters aren't turning, what's to prevent
> 'bleed' and consequential data corruption?
OTOH if the platters ARE turning, what's to prevent bleed? Unless you
mean over a period of decades....
> What I'm looking at is the new external flash-based HDDs ... that's for
> down the road, however. <G>
Do you mean the ubiquitous "memory sticks"? But how long can they store
data without errors?
The only "no moving parts" devices I know that really were permanent
were the fusible link PROMs, but they were mostly limited to less than 1
Kb of data.
UV-EPROMs rarely lasted more than about 10 years, EEPROMs somewhat less.
I don't know what technology the memory sticks use, but I doubt that
they would last for more than a few years unless stored in a specially
cool environment.
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