[geeks] Commiserate with me ... this sucks.

Scott Howard scott at doc.net.au
Thu Jul 1 09:15:00 CDT 2004


On Thu, Jul 01, 2004 at 08:31:26AM -0400, James wrote:
> I never trust anything to anything. The odds of recovering data from a tape
> backup set is inversely proportional to the level of desperate need of the
> files. I've seen RAID go away. I've seen fire wipe out replicated storage
> devices. The technology that I trust the most (but not fully) is optical,

Perhaps you should read http://www.cdfreaks.com/news/7751

Most WORM drives are more reliable than CD-Rs, but the point remains
that you shouldn't put all your eggs in one basket, regardless of what
it is.

  Scott



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