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As someone who had the pleasure of transferring the contents of roughly
750 CDs to more voluminous storage, let me say that anyone who thinks
that CDs are suitable storage media needs to reconsider. The time taken
to load the CD, copy the files and then prepare for the next one was
substantial.

Properly configured RAID storage (and appropriate backups) would be far
more cost effective, not to mention much safer.

John Lovejoy
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From: Records Management Program [mailto:[log in to unmask]] On
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Sent: Friday, April 23, 2010 5:14 AM
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Subject: [RM] Long-lived CDs for Enterprise Use

Dear Colleagues, especially those administering corporate RIM programs:

This august group, and others, have established that quality varies
widely in digital storage media.  For example, for CDs [that is, Compact
Disks -- if you were thinking Certificates of Deposit, you are on the
wrong listServ :-)] gold is good, and the 100-spindle-for-$10 CDs at
StaplMax suffer by comparison.

For enterprises requiring long-term record storage, how have you
established, implemented, and enforced quality-control of media?  Have
you written media quality requirements into your procedures and
policies?  Have you forged an alliance with Corporate Purchasing for
enterprise-wide standards and/or central purchasing and distribution?
Do you allow a double standard: cheap CDs for convenience copies and
gold CDs for records?

In short, how can we best invest in high-quality media in order to
ensure longterm records availability while minimizing or eliminating
media migration?

I profoundly appreciate your thoughts and shared experience, to say
nothing of your invaluable collegiality.

Wishing you well,

Gordy
Gordon E.J. Hoke, CRM
http://PositivelyRIM.blogspot.com
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