[filmscanners] Re: Advice on scanner settings

["Arthur Entlich" <artistik@shaw.ca>]

There is a new memory storage design on the near horizon which is
non-volatile dense and cheap to produce.  It is cheaper than flash, and
supposedly more reliable and a lot denser (Terabyte thumb drives), and
the first versions of it should be available later this year.  It will
likely eventually become a replacement for hard drives (its about time.
) It uses nano scale copper wires, apparently and the equipment to
produce it was original designed for medical devices and is called
programmable metallization cell (PMC).

 -- if you think flash memory changed things, just wait...

Art

http://www.wired.com/gadgets/miscellaneous/news/2007/10/ion_memory



Tony Sleep wrote:
> On 26/02/2009 Peter Marquis-Kyle wrote:
>
>> Tony, do you keep your archive files on those HDDs, or do you have CD
>> or
>> DVD storage as well?
>>
>
> I used to backup to CD, but it's as useless as floppies given today's data
> volumes. DVD I don't trust for anything that can't be rewritten from
> somewhere else. I used to use tape at one time, but DAT (and DAT drives)
> proved less reliable than the HDD's I was backing up. DLT is supposedly
> excellent but costly, and by then I hated tape.
>
> I got fed up messing with optical disks, tapes etc and nowadays I just
> have the whole lot on RAID3, backed up to HDD, backed up again to HDD and
> stored offsite. Lots of redundancy is cheaper and HDD's are easier to
> manage  automatically (so backups get done), and easier to store and
> restore. I've evolved this over about 5 years and never lost a byte
> (except through my own stupidity), despite many HDD failures.
>
> --
> Regards
>
> Tony Sleep
> http://tonysleep.co.uk
>
>
>

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