[Info-vax] TK50 - this is annoying...

[Eberhard Heuser]

Am Donnerstag, 11. Oktober 2012 15:26:44 UTC+2 schrieb Bob Koehler:
> In article <2383fac5-e7af-4aa9-8057-ddef314900de at r9g2000vbf.googlegroups.com>, John Wallace <johnwallace4 at yahoo.co.uk> writes:
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> > I've probably said this already elsewhere... I did some work once with
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> > some nice folk in the professional/broadcast audio business. They
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> > needed their recording media+device to be 100% reliable in terms of
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> > NEVER EVER losing data (digital equivalent of a studio master tape,
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> > lose it and you're out of luck). These folk preferred not to use DDS/
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> > DAT, even though another company in the group pioneered it. Some
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> > flavour of magneto-optical was their working media of choice (which
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> > will tell those in the know that this was a while back).
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>    Hm, then they may have since lost their data.  Magneto-optical has
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>    lifetimes.  Writeable optical has lifetimes.  Magnetic has lifetimes,
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>    which can be greatly influenced by proper handling.
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>    Knowing proper handling, following what you know, and eventually
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>    making new copies is the only way to approach 100% reliable
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>    recording.

BTW Some Blu-Ray media have a certificated lifetime of 50 years...

eberhard