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Crappy CDs Part Deux

Wednesday, March 29th, 2006
Posted in Storage Applications, Advisor - Tom Treadway

Question: In the late 90’s there was a firestorm of controversy surrounding the lifespan of CDs (to which Tom recently alluded). Is there a definitive answer? Is it safe to use CD-Rs as a permanent archive?

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I lost a Terabyte!

Friday, March 3rd, 2006
Posted in General, Storage Management, Advisor - Joe Disher

The problem is all in the math. Most of us that have been in the storage industry know that the way the hard drive vendors “market” the drive capacities is fundamentally inaccurate.

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