> From: tech-boun...@lists.lopsa.org [mailto:tech-boun...@lists.lopsa.org] > On Behalf Of Doug Hughes > > LTO, Ultrium/IBM, and > StorageTek have a published archival life of 30.
If they publish a spec, that's something you can work with (and I would venture a guess, probably good enough to satisfy Bill's original request for statistics.) It turns out, searching for "archive hard drive" produces a result - WD produces a "WD Ae Datacenter Archive HD" WD600VF4PZ, "The WD Ae is best suited for cold storage, backup and data archiving where data is stored on disk but rarely if almost never read again" But so far I haven't found any published spec about data longevity. _______________________________________________ Tech mailing list Tech@lists.lopsa.org https://lists.lopsa.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/tech This list provided by the League of Professional System Administrators http://lopsa.org/
