Re: filmscanners: Best digital archive medium for scans?

[Arthur Entlich <artistic@ampsc.com>]

Not to be a smart @ss, but how about film?

I don't know that any of the current storage media will either be around
or will survive 20 plus years from now.

I'm unfamiliar with Iomega's optical drives.  I know they make mainly
magnetic drives and rebadge some CD-R drives.  DVD RAM and it's kin are
all so tentative in terms of which will become standardized, that it is
probably a lot safer to use CD-R.

Art

Mark Edmonds wrote:

> Basically, I am looking for a long term (20 years+) storage medium to
> archive my scans on. I don't have faith in CDR and tapes are also prone to
> long term problems so the only solution I can see is a magneto optical disk.
> Another problem is that it is all well and good to have a bomb proof medium
> but it is no good if no one makes the hardware to read it in a few years
> time.
> 
> So is there a clear cut winner out there? The two affordable options I am
> looking at are either the Iomega Optical drive or the Panasonic DVD-RAM. The
> Iomega seems to support a format which has some penetration in the market
> but the DVD-RAM looks like it might not have got very far. I am running
> NT4.0 by the way.
> 
> Any advice on this matter gratfully received!
> 
> Mark