Greetings from Wonderful Wyoming,
Angel, Peter is correct about flash drives. Generally digital media is not necessarily a good long term solution to preservation. The best you can do is store the media in a humidity and temperature controlled environment, quality check the media every year or two, plan to migrate to new media and applications every five to ten years, and pray that you have not lost the stored information.
Just my thoughts,
Rich Wilson, MCP
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>>> On 11/19/2009 at 2:38 PM, in message <[log in to unmask]>, Peter Kurilecz <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
On Thu, Nov 19, 2009 at 3:53 PM, Angel Ramos <[log in to unmask]
> wrote:
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> Does anyone know best practices for long-term storage of Flash Drives?
>
> I don't see flash drives as a long-term storage solution. Their primary
purpose is for easy transfer of information without having to email it or
transport it across a network drive.
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