[cctalk] Re: long lived media (Was: Damage to CD-R from CD Sleeve

But then you're dealing with stored media, and their shelf life. USB hard drives may be ok so long as USB interfaces are available; if they are USB SSDs that's a different matter entirely. Those would not be good for a decade on the shelf. One advantage of setting up a server is that it's more obvious that something has failed. If a disk on the shelf goes bad, you may not discover it for years, and by then the recovery may be quite hard. paul