8mm data cartridges

[Alexandre Souza]

> Now that I have a tarabyte at home (1 trillion bytes in box small
> enough to palm), I should set up an external SCSI box and check my
> backup tapes from a few years back.  I have CD backups from that era
> as well (and copies of copies of it all), so I'm not worried about one
> (?!?) bad tape ruining my day, but I should take advantage of the
> equipment on hand to see what reads and migrate the contents to newer
> media.

    This is something that worries me a lot! I have lots and lots of 
irreplaceable content and don't want to see it vanish. What can I TRUST 
today for some two terabytes of data? Please, cheap options, I still cannot 
afford a DLT :o)