Re: The Nikon D3 makes everyone's life better, even mine!!!

"Allen" <allen@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote in message
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> How long will DVD be a standard format? So far, the data storage method
> that has survived the longest without becoming obsolete in the hard disc
> (excluding paper, of course). What if, 20 years ago, you had selected 8"
> or 5.25" floppies as your standard storage method; or 15 years ago, you
> had picked 3.5" diskettes?


You'd be FAR better off with 3.5 " diskettes than an old ST512 type hard
drive! You can still buy and fit a 3.5" drive to any computer, but they
haven't made ST512 controllers for over a decade. (And VERY few
motherboards
available with ISA slots even if you have an old controller) Better hope
that old XT or 286 keeps working for ever :-)
Then again the Hard drive bearings or heads will probably be frozen from
inactivity and lubricants drying out anyway.

>>One
> very im****tant key to backup is to routinely transfer all backups to
> modern devices before your selected medium vanishes into the great bit
> bucket in the sky.

Exactly.

The best chance for archival longevity IMO (at present) is to have your
data
pressed to a commercial CDROM.
 A little expensive for most people though :-)

MrT.