(Yet Another) Long-Term Archival solution

________________________________ From: "arcarlini at iee.org" <arcarlini at iee.org> http://www.tomshardware.com/news/Hitachi-quartz-glass-data-dots-Takao-Wa tanabe-Superman,17856.html I wonder if this will turn out to be any more "real" than the various other "archival" solutions that have cropped up. Still, if it just needs a microscope to read the data out (and some software, unless you are extremely patient), then it has promise for those of us who'd like to be able to peruse our documents after the apocalypse. C: I don't know what you mean exactly by the _apocalypse_, but if you're referring to *the* apocalypse, it already happened. A long, long time ago. The most common misconception is it's yet to occur. So common it's scary. ?If people simply used a bare bones file system, w/redundancy, w/backups faithfully made every 6 months, what's wrong w/optical storage? I know, there's been loads of discussion.