Use mini CDR for equipment info?

[Bob Brown]

Run them every few months at least.
-Bob

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-----Original Message-----
From: cctalk-bounces at classiccmp.org [mailto:cctalk-bounces at classiccmp.org] On Behalf Of Alexandre Souza - Listas
Sent: Wednesday, April 14, 2010 9:36 AM
To: General Discussion: On-Topic and Off-Topic Posts
Subject: Re: Use mini CDR for equipment info?

>For anything important, I wouldn't trust just optical media. External hard 
>drives are so inexpensive with such a large capacity.
>Storing important things on a couple instances of magnetic media, perhaps 
>in additional to optical, might be a safer way to preserve
>them.  (A couple big external drives, stored in a couple of safe, offsite, 
>locations etc).

And you leave them some years without turning on, the heads glue to the disk 
surface and bye bye.

What about memory cards? CFs are cheap and IDE interfaces may be avaiable 
for years to come :oO