A new gold standard for archival storage?
There seems to be a broad consensus that magneto-optical disks offer
the most reliable long term storage for data. Here is something that appears to be similar, and holds 30GB in a 5 inch package! What do you think about this medium? http://www.akibalive.com/archives/000487.html Reproduced below: Mitsubishi Chemical Media Corporation (Japan) has announced the development of a 5 inch optical UDO (Ultra Density Optical) disk capable of 30GB of storage. The optical disk will go on sale during the fall of 2004. UDO was invented by a British company called Plasmon, and utilizes a blue laser to read and store data on the disks. Mitsubishi received licensing from Plasmon to sell the disks. Developers such as Plasmon and HP will start developing drives to read and write the disks. The UDO media is an ideal format for enterprise storage systems and is 10,000 times more reliable than current storage types on the market. The expected price for one disk is around ¥10,000 ~ ¥20,000. -- David Arnstein Please do not look at laser with remaining eye |
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The UDO media is an ideal format for enterprise storage systems and is
10,000 times more reliable than current storage types on the market. I would like to see some sort of quantification of this claim: what they mean by "reliable", what media it's compared to, and how they tested it. -- I've seen things you people can't imagine. Chimneysweeps on fire over the roofs of London. I've watched kite-strings glitter in the sun at Hyde Park Gate. All these things will be lost in time, like chalk-paintings in the rain. `-_-' Time for your nap. | Peter da Silva | Har du kramat din varg, idag? 'U` |
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