>If the goal is to reduce the real estate foot print then storing them
in media format is the best course of action.

I believe everyone here will agree that the ability to convert 10,000
boxes of storage into the size of a piece of Texas Toast is the only way
to go.  Does everyone agree??  :~(
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Hugh,

I don't agree. If you have retention schedules in place and destroy your
records accordingly, it's possible that it can cost less to store the
paper than to do the conversion. Also, from a information protection
standpoint, storing those 10,000 boxes could be a form of dispersal,
which records managers know is one of the four methods of protecting
vital records. So if the storage company loses your one piece of Texas
Toast sized storage media, you've lost all of your information. But if
they lose only one box of paper, you've only lost .0001 of your
information. 

Gary Link, CRM
Pittsburgh, PA

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