Re: [ARSCLIST] Hard disk drives and DAT

["Richard L. Hess" <arclists@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

At 05:18 PM 2007-03-27, Frank Strauss wrote:
> This thread hit home today.  I use gmail, and presently have 1790 MB of
> stuff, totaling15,228 emails living there.

...

> I searched
> on line and found that last year Gmail had some trouble and lost everything
> before December from 60 or so accounts.

...

> but when your stuff is somewhere else, you sleep better with redundancy.

Several comments on this.

(1) If I care about it, it is on my triple redundant server system.
(2) If I do not want to host it personally, I would be very, very, 
very picky about understanding who was hosting it for me. I do not 
trust Google or Pbase to be my archival repository.
(3) At this point, I do not trust startup commercial digital 
repositories with my stuff.
(4) I am feeling quite comfortable with several digital repositories, 
but that has been a several year learning and watching experience.

There is a big difference IMHO between Google's level of care keeping 
the contents of my free email account and a university/corporate/agency TDR.

Cheers,

Richard


Richard L. Hess                   email: richard@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
Aurora, Ontario, Canada       (905) 713 6733     1-877-TAPE-FIX
Detailed contact information: http://www.richardhess.com/tape/contact.htm
Quality tape transfers -- even from hard-to-play tapes.