[DM-MUG] long-term data storage

[Darcy Baston]

I hadn't thought that Ray. That's a good idea. More affordable per gigabyte too. I've got about 400GB in total. Two drives where one is the backup of the other, would do nicely and for less dollars than a media jump today.

Hmmm, thanks for this kind fo feedback.

Darcy

On Tuesday, August 22, 2006, at 12:40PM, Ray Bowler <rbowler at mchsi.com> wrote:

>Here is a wild one. You don't say how large the total is but you 
>might try this. Buy two good external firewire drives--500 GB say. 
>Copy your material to both of them at the same time. When they get 
>full (or in about three hears) buy two which are double in size, copy 
>your material over and continue adding with the latest technology. Of 
>course if the technology changes sooner than that switch when you 
>need to do so.
>
>Like I say--wild but it might work