Re: tapes best for backup?
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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