Re: tapes best for backup?

[David Dyer-Bennet <dd-b@dd-b.net>]

s. keeling wrote:
> 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.
>
>   

Ah; well, perhaps it is, but it's not *crazy* I don't think, either. 

I feel like it's not really "new" tech, since it's so very similar to 
CD-R.  To me it feels like old tech pushed very hard to achieve the much 
higher densities.  The disk layering and the dyes are to the best of my 
knowledge *very* similar.

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