[AT] OT: recording vinyl to computer files

[Steve W.]

Ralph,
  the only problems I have heard of WRT CD problems usually were in 
reference to people who used RW types. The ones you can record to and 
then erase. They can be a problem if certain types of light hit them. If 
your using good CD-R blanks and don't store them in the furnace they 
should be fine for a long time. Original CDs that are made as stampings 
will last a long time.
Personally I have been buying up a few extra hard drives and making 
double backup copies of everything I want to keep. I just rotate through 
the different drives as needed. I also have a fire resistant back-up 
drive that I built myself. Started with a large safe, then mounted a 
pair of racks in it to hold the drives. The drives are connected up 
using a USB 2 hub inside the safe. The power supply for the drives and 
the hub are all external to the safe. The connections from the outside 
are through a few ceramic connectors and the inner and outer connections 
are staggered. Gives me a total of 480 GB per channel.

-- 
Steve W.
Firefighter,EMT,Fire Police
VanHornesville Vol. Fire Dept

Ralph Goff wrote:
> ----- Original Message ----- 
> From: <rlgoss at insightbb.com>
> To: "Antique tractor email discussion group" <at at lists.antique-tractor.com>
> Sent: Monday, January 28, 2008 9:26 AM
> Subject: Re: [AT] OT: recording vinyl to computer files (was Re: The Wreck 
> Of The Old 97/OT
> 
> 
> As with all archival activities in this electronic age, this conversion is 
> NOT the end.  When the CD format disappears (just like the LP record) a new 
> format will have to be used and the material on the previous format will 
> have to migrate to the new "standard".  So even though all this thread about 
> old audio records may seem to be way off topic, it really isn't -- we have 
> the same problem in preserving the literature for our old tractors.
> 
> As a side comment, the digital version of tractor literature has some 
> advantages that the original didn't have -- it's infinitely searchable.  The 
> orginal materials weren't.
> 
> Larry, and anyone else who might know,
> Since nobody else has brought up the subject, just how safe are the cd disks 
> for saving archival material? I have heard some disturbing (rumours)? that 
> the cds can become unreadable in a few years and the material on them is 
> lost. I haven't had it happen to me yet but none of my recorded cds are more 
> than a couple of years old. If that is true, maybe paper is still the safest 
> method of saving old photos and documents. I have family photos over a 
> hundred years old that don't appear to have deteriorated at all. I have been 
> scanning a lot of these old photos and documents to cd but sometimes I 
> wonder just how safe and permanent the material on them will be.
> 
> Ralph in Sask.
> 
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