Digital BW, The Print

You are absolutely right Mark! Today the most obvious solutions are backed up RAID solutions. When truly high speed bandwidths become possible, then the "cloud" will probably be our best bet for us big storage users. But you never know when some "three dimensional" high density personal storage cube might jump in to upset the paradigm. ;-)

That's the trouble with our fast moving high tech world, it keeps on moving. Remember the Syquest disks? Then 3.5 in Opticals, Bernouli's, tape drives, all kinds of obsolete formats!

Why do you think Steve Jobs quit putting optical drives in Apples newest lightest machines? He was betting on the "cloud"!

 John Nollendorfs

--- In DigitalBlackandWhiteThePrint@yahoogroups.com, "Mark" <mark@...> wrote:
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> It's a noble attempt, but the concept is flawed not due to material durability, or even hardware obsolescense in the conventional sense (although these points could also be debated). The flaw in this approach is the data density. Give it just a few more years, and today's optical discs with this level of data density will be about as useful as 8 inch floppy drives are today. I've already abandoned CDs and DVDs as a digital image storage medium for this very reason. They don't meet my current data capacity needs due to poor read/write times and sheer physical size of the media, and I'm not a anywhere close to being a prolific photographer or videographer.
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> cheers
> Mark
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> --- In DigitalBlackandWhiteThePrint@yahoogroups.com, "Paul" <roark.paul@> wrote:
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> > This could be an interesting option for long term image storage.  Check out http://millenniata.com/
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> > Paul
> > www.PaulRoark.com
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