4) You do not need buy hard drives, DVDs, .. and no need in suffering from different format of files, ...
-disk space is cheap and becoming cheaper
And what about different format of pucks/cassettes/tongs etc? I can still read my old Vax backup tapes (on a linux box with an exabyte tape drive), but my old Yale-style pins won't fit in the Hampton Research cryotongs available at the beamline, they don't sit well on the standard goniometer magnet, and can't be picked up by the automounter. Ed
