[ale] Cendyne external USB cd-rw

Jeff Hubbs hbbs at comcast.net
Mon Nov 3 22:45:00 EST 2003


So what's good in MO drives these days?  What's the media capacity in
this day and age?

- Jeff

On Mon, 2003-11-03 at 22:38, James P. Kinney III wrote:
> On Mon, 2003-11-03 at 20:28, Jeff Rose wrote:
> >  What would be a better long term archive format?  Removable
> > drives?  I want something that will allow easy access to my data for
> > many, many years.  
> 
> Magneto-optical drives are the best long-term storage medium by all
> engineering standards. But they are relatively expensive.  Magnetic tape
> in proper storage is a distant second. CD-R in proper storage is a
> distant third. Removable hard drive is on par with CD-R.
-- 
Jeff Hubbs <hbbs at comcast.net>



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