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From: susanc@ssd3450.SanDiegoCA.ATTGIS.COM (susan cassidy)
Subject: Re: Saving 100GB of data for 15 years cheaply
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I would be reluctant to count on any form of magnetic tape lasting for 15
years.  When I visited the U.S. Geological Survey office where they 
process the data from space probes, they told us they had problems with
tapes distintegrating that had data that had not yet been processed.
Also, the reliability of tape is very dependent on the environmental
conditions.

One other factor is that anything like 8mm Exabyte tapes may not be
around (the drives/software to read them) 15 years from now.  They
did not exist 15 years ago.  I think the CD/ROM idea is probably
a better approach for now.

-- 
Susan Cassidy
email: susan.cassidy@sandiegoca.attgis.com
