[Info-vax] USB or SCSI TAPE

[Eberhard Heuser]

Am 10.09.2014 um 16:47 schrieb Rod Regier via Info-vax:
> to clarify:
>
> USB DAT drives are the wave of the future compared to
> any SCSI interface version of DAT drives.
>
> I didn't encounter any data interchange issues with a DAT tape
> written on one drive and reading it on another that supported that
> density.  I don't make extensive use of that capability,
> but I have used it occasionally.
>
>            \\
>
> Concur that BDR is a much more long-term durable storage media.
> Good luck finding a drive and software that can read a 1000-yr old
> BDR in the future.  (Example of the computer media archivists nightmare.)
> Librarians are already having problems reading 8 inch laser disks due to hardware/software availability.
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In contrast to your opinion I don't see these problems:

CD-R media exist since ~25 years and modern BD-drives still can read and 
even write CD-R(W)s.
Try to find a DAT-tape drive that reads 20 year old tapes.

If Blu-Ray-drives will be not procuded anymore you have to copy them to 
the next generation of optical
media.

Eberhard