[ale] Cendyne external USB cd-rw

[James P. Kinney III]

On Mon, 2003-11-03 at 20:28, Jeff Rose wrote:
>  What would be a better long term archive format?  Removable
> drives?  I want something that will allow easy access to my data for
> many, many years.  

Magneto-optical drives are the best long-term storage medium by all
engineering standards. But they are relatively expensive.  Magnetic tape
in proper storage is a distant second. CD-R in proper storage is a
distant third. Removable hard drive is on par with CD-R.

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