1 Feb
2009
1 Feb
'09
8:36 a.m.
Jim Leonard wrote:
Holger Veit wrote:
Personally I reckon we'll be dumping it across a network to some remote site;
in an interconnected society there's no need for the backup to be on local
media at all. Of course that raises *huge* security issues, but by and large
people don't seem to care about those if the end result achieves what they
want. Governments will love us for it, of course :-)
Lots of us already back up across a LAN to a machine (regardless of the
storage technology behind the scenes), so it's not a big leap to do that to
some off-site server; it's just that the upstream data rates from the home
aren't really *quite* there yet.
Yes, the back-end will likely be hard disks - but the end-user's experience
will just be one of throwing data across a network link.
cheers
Jules
BlueRay (which I give 2 years until the next
technology will be thrown
on the customer obsoleting the format).
Don't bet on it. Blu-Ray is the last consumer-deliverable physical
media, which means it is the last consumer archival media. The entire
entertainment industry has seen the writing on the wall and is moving
toward digital distribution. There will not be a successor to Blu-Ray.
In the future, we won't be burning to pieces of plastic for archiving.