Re: tapes best for backup?

["s. keeling" <keeling@nucleus.com>]

David Dyer-Bennet <dd-b@dd-b.net>:
>  s. keeling wrote:
> > I've never run across a CD I couldn't still read, and I've a few
> > old ones.  DVD, I would expect to be even better.  For me, tape's
> 
>  Why would you expect DVD to be better?  I'd expect it to be worse, for 
>  the obvious reasons -- smaller physical bit representations, packed 

Because it's newer technology which ought to have incorporated lessons
learned from the CD history.  Perhaps that's wishful thinking.


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