[TriLUG] Safest long-term media

Carl Crider c.crider at gmail.com
Sun Jul 12 10:29:47 EDT 2009


That job can (and most certainly will be) outsourced. :)

On Sat, Jul 11, 2009 at 8:48 PM, Joseph Mack NA3T<jmack at wm7d.net> wrote:
> On Sat, 11 Jul 2009, Christopher L Merrill wrote:
>
>> How about "PaperBack"?
>>
>> At 250M per ream of paper, a $40 box + a $80 laser toner cartridge
>> will get 2.5G of data backed up on good old reliable paper.  The
>> great part is you can SEE if your media has degraded ;)
>> You'll probably want a scanner with a sheet-feeder when it's time
>> to restore the data :)
>
> how long would it take to read it back?
>
> Joe
>
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