[Cialug] long term storage

[jrnosee at gmail.com]

I once thought these would be an interesting format.  ~quarter sized optical
disks that could hold 250MB.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/DataPlay*
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On Mon, Jul 20, 2009 at 12:13 PM, Matthew Nuzum <newz at bearfruit.org> wrote:

>
> On Wed, Jul 15, 2009 at 10:09 AM, Afan Pasalic <afan at afan.net> wrote:
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>> Since technology is changing, store your data on DVDs - good for 5
>> years. And in 5 years there will be new type of media (bigger, better,
>> safer...) and you will just move your data from DVDs to that new media -
>> and back in the circle of technology.
>> :-)
>>
>
> Not that I'm trying to put this back on topic or anything, but Taiyo Yuden
> brand optical media are rated for 99 years if you don't put a label on them.
> Labels decrease the life span significantly.
>
> Regarding future media, the trend is moving towards technologies that have
> DRM integrally built in so CD may be the last long-term storage medium where
> it will be relatively straightforward to decode the data.
>
> There was an interesting optical media format out several years ago that
> never saw the light of day (pun intended). Called OROM, it was an
> interesting media because the reader had no moving parts. It was a small
> smart-card sized flexible translucent plastic disk that had concentric
> circles where data was stored. A device cable of writing the disks was
> available from the onset. The reader worked by shining LEDs through the disk
> onto a sensor below. The cards could hold about 150M or so but if the
> technlogy had a chance to mature I'm sure that the density would have
> increased. I believe the technology was by a company called ioptics.
>
> Seems like it would have had great potential for this type of use case.
>
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