[rollei_list] Re: Large Format film availability

  • From: "Eric Goldstein" <egoldste@xxxxxxxxx>
  • To: rollei_list@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
  • Date: Thu, 1 May 2008 14:09:39 -0400

Hard drives used in pairs. No burnable media is in any way close to
"reasonable" or archival.


Eric Goldstein

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On 5/1/08, Allen Zak <azak@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> Are there any media that offer "reasonable," if not archival, longevity for
> digital files?  Although I have some respect for posterity, in about 20
> years I expect to have little or no involvement in it, anyway.
>
>  Allen Zak
>
>  On May 1, 2008, at 12:43 PM, Jeff Kelley wrote:
>
>
> > I guarantee the claims are marketing hype.  I worked for years at Sony as
> an Application Engineer and Software Engineer during the beginning days of
> CDROM.  This was when the first 1X burners were tens of thousands of dollars
> and the gold blanks were $25 to $35 EACH.  They kept the blanks locked in a
> metal cabinet & kept close tabs on them ;)
> >
> > I've had state of the art, lab quality CDs that were rated at 100 years +
> die in less than 3 years.  I've seen the same quality discs unreadable on a
> second machine within seconds of burning them.  And so on....
> >
> > CDROMS and DVD media are NOT archival backups.  Period.
> >
> > Jeff
> >
> > On Thu, May 1, 2008 at 5:22 AM, Eric Goldstein <egoldste@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> >
> > > This is inaccurate information. Those claims arr marketing hype.
> > >
> > >
> > > Eric Goldstein
> > >
> > >  --
> > >
> > >
> > >
> > > On 5/1/08, Mark Rabiner <mark@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> > > > Those more expensive gold DVD's are supposed to be ok though.
> > > >  I'm getting those.
> > >  >
> > > >  Mark William Rabiner
> > > >  markrabiner.com
> > > >
> > > >
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