Info on OPTICAL DISCS for Unix Vaxen sought

[kuo at skatter.UUCP]

In article <421 at hslrswi.UUCP>, robert at hslrswi.UUCP (Robert Ward) writes:
> 
> Hello Net,
> 
> We are considering purchasing an optical disc for long-term archival of
> sources, news articles, data files and so on.
> 
> Does anyone have experience of using such a beast ? I am looking for
> pointers indicating what is available. Of course issues such as
> reliability, usability, life-time of the discs themselves,
> cost-effectiveness, etc., are also of great interest to us.
> 

I would like to hear info about this "worm" (write once read many) optical
disk devices too. We are seriously considering using them for on-line data
storage for physics experiments.


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