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What is paper?  *GRIN*

Sure, CDs may not be forever, but I would trust data to them before I 
would trust data to a floppy disk.  Everything will degrade over time. 
More things can degrade a floppy than a CD though.  Also, floppy drives 
are becoming more and more scarce on new machines.  Eventually, so will CD 
ROM drives.  I honestly don't know, but I wonder what the longevity of 
Compact Flash is on static data.

For a lot of things I just depend on the provider of the service to store 
my data.  All my utility bills can be had from the web sites of my utility 
companies.

I guess in the end it just depends on how paranoid you are or how 
sensitive the data is.  Keep the stuff on your hard drive and make sure 
you do regular back-ups to CD.  Get yourself a second hard drive and 
mirror the first so that you can survive a drive failure.  Get yourself 
five cheap drives and RAID them together, then back-up to CD.

You could always keep everything on the hard drive and print out copies on 
paper to keep in your fire proof safe.  Oh wait.  What am I saying. 
*GRIN*



-- 
Blue skies.
Dan Rossi
Carnegie Mellon University.
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