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How about flash memory?
How does flash memory compare to optical and HDD storage, as far as longevity is concerned?
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How about flash memory?  pjotr123 | 01/05/09
No Good at all ...  Ludovit | 01/05/09
Ludo is correct: flash is not an archive medium  Robin Harris ZDNet Moderator | 01/05/09
I think our ears were ringing yesterday, Robin  jperlow ZDNet Moderator | 01/05/09
RE: Long-term personal data storage  kde_uk | 01/05/09
DVDs? Are you kidding?  WindowWasher | 01/05/09
DVDs, as part of a balanced diet . . .  Robin Harris ZDNet Moderator | 01/05/09
DVD's are NOT archival in the traditional sense  rtalbert | 01/05/09
5 times?  notlehs | 01/12/09
Backup software for removable hard drives  richard.christensen@... | 01/05/09
Evaporating data on writeable optical disks  CodeCurmudgeon | 01/06/09
RE: MSDOS machine  V@... | 01/06/09
Amazon s3  Christian_<>< | 01/11/09
Low-energy lightbulbs  V@... | 01/05/09
UV  CodeCurmudgeon | 01/06/09
RE: UV  V@... | 01/06/09
Re: UV  esobocinski | 01/08/09
Each revision to the PDF spec is backward-compatible  paul613 | 01/05/09
Backward compatible!!!  alokgovil | 01/05/09
Zip 100 disks and the Clinton-Bush-Obama economic depression  Professor8 | 01/05/09
Documents: How about html or .odf instead of Microsoft's RTF?  paron | 01/05/09
HMTL  ericesque | 01/05/09
Long-term storage of audio and pictures  jlhollin | 01/05/09
RE: Long-term personal data storage  interactive_ace@... | 01/05/09
Let's face it.  V@... | 01/05/09
Hmmm ...  Ludovit | 01/05/09
RE: Hmmm...  V@... | 01/06/09
RE: Plastics  V@... | 01/07/09
Metal "paper tape"  Master Dave | 01/07/09
Somehow I don't see this problem going away.  V@... | 01/07/09
Online Storage  alokgovil | 01/05/09
It can all die - what you hope  Robin Harris ZDNet Moderator | 01/06/09
Importance of sharing  techr@... | 01/12/09
File formats for storage  alokgovil | 01/05/09
Another standards  JJ Brannon | 01/12/09
Maintaining file date-time stamps  alokgovil | 01/05/09
RE: date-time stamps  V@... | 01/06/09
Excellent article and subject  alokgovil | 01/05/09
Archiving software?  richard.christensen@... | 01/05/09
Personal favourite  joyce@... | 01/06/09
RE: Long-term personal data storage  RandyM55 | 01/06/09
Depends on your use of the word archive  V@... | 01/06/09
Single copies are a mistake  Robin Harris ZDNet Moderator | 01/06/09
HD issues  techr@... | 01/12/09
RE: Long-term personal data storage  Vquest55@... | 01/06/09
RE: Long-term personal data storage  Bilal89 | 01/07/09
What this conservative person does...  Master Dave | 01/07/09
Be careful with so many HDDs on one machine.  V@... | 01/07/09
FLAC for music  davebarnes | 01/09/09
Why not WAV files then?  techr@... | 01/12/09
What about blu-ray????  javajunkie@... | 01/09/09
sony says 30yrs  javajunkie@... | 01/09/09
Sony=Baloney  gsteele531@... | 05/19/09
Delkin says 200 years  javajunkie@... | 01/09/09
I sure hope they find a working blu-ray machine in 200yrs.  V@... | 01/09/09
My experience  nizuse | 01/11/09
RE: XLS.  V@... | 01/11/09
Cheap optical disks cannot 'slowly scramble your data'  Lerianis | 01/11/09
7yrs old. - So do most people.  V@... | 01/11/09
Something doesn't sound right there  Lerianis | 01/11/09
Knowing the cause is half the battle. happy  V@... | 01/12/09
The oil exploration companies have solved  davebarnes | 01/11/09
Do we require an equivalent balance sheet to the oil companies?  V@... | 01/11/09
Storage is cheap?  Lerianis | 01/12/09
A "not so rich" man's solution  b.bob | 01/12/09

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