Re: RAID safest magnetic medium for Long Term Archiving?
As just one among many IT pros...
Unless you have a ridiculous amount of data, I'd go with optical storage such as DVD. I'd also pick up a brand new, USB drive matching your audio media and put it away with you're media.
I'm not 100% sure, but I believe that current best practice calls for storing optical media in a tightly closed box with a black interior.
In an IT department, tape is generally only used for relatively short-term storage. You are backing up dynamic storage, and a year-old backup tape is not normally very useful. Also, there are a number of tape autoloaders available which allow for totally automated backup.
So, while tape is the norm in IT departments, for archival storage I would go with optical...
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Bill in Pittsburgh
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