A physicist??? I imagine they must be pretty good at physics, but
comparing archival media is probably a job better left to fortune
tellers.

No question, with tape leaving the picture, we're talking optical vs.
hard drive. And with today's high SSD prices, we can only consider
rotating hard drives. Now that Blu-ray has won out, that narrows it
down to BD-R vs. HDD.

But both have a tendency to fail suddenly and without warning, unlike
tapes - especially old analog tapes. Anyway, we're still shooting
mostly SD, so again this season we'll mostly be doing project archives
to DVD-R, and holding the project on a hard drive as long as we can
after delivery. I'd really like to get the boss to understand the
difference between *archival* HDD's and *work* HDD's. And the need to
have both.

On Sun, Feb 22, 2009 at 2:05 PM, Perry Mitchell