Re: Cds

["Tom Ritchford" <tom@swirly.com>]

I keep everything on hard drives -- I have my main machine and two
backups, one offsite.

I rotate the backups periodically -- and disks fall off the bottom as
they get old/small -- I started backing up onto 80's, now it's 250's.

Interesting, since I started this I have had no data loss of any kind.
 :-D  rather like carrying an umbrella around.

On 1/3/07, David Auker <davauk@hevanet.com> wrote:
>
> CD/Tape...here's a tidbit about National Public Radio's Fresh Air:
>
> > Most of Gross's interviews are taped and edited down, and as is the
> > case in many radio programs, guests are often not in the studio. While
> > nearly all other radio programming now use digital recording, Fresh
> > Air is still recorded, edited and played on analog reel-to-reel tape.
> > However, the program's website announced in 2006 that the aging tapes
> > were now deteriorating and that they would soon begin transferring the
> > thousands of interviews "to a digital format and indexing them." The
> > show usually uses fiber-optic lines to conduct its interviews leading
> > to a superior sound quality.
> from http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fresh_Air
> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Terry_Gross
>
> Wow, Terry Gross has been there 30 years!
>
> =David
>
> a k butler wrote:
> >
> >> I've was told by a very prominent ethnomusicologist who I met at Lou
> >> Harrison's house that tape is still the prefered media for archival
> >> storage.
> >
> > Smithsonian Folkways are transferring their tapes to digital.
> >
> > All media have limited life, but the advantage with digital is that
> > with care you can
> > re-copy every so often without loss.
> >
> > The advantage of tape is that even without care you still get some
> > kind of audio, whereas when digital media degrades you tend to lose
> > everything.
> >
> > andy butler
> >
> >
>
>


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