[MCN-L] digital media migration

[Han, Yan]

I think it is much better to migrate to external hard drives (rather using CDs/DVDs) or massive storage. Depending on how much space you need, 1TB external hard disk costs less than $200.  Rather than trusting the failure rate of massive storage (usually expensive), I would rather have multiple copies of data over cheap hard disks/servers. (Thinking about how Google built its clustered PC). 

Yan 



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From: mcn-l-bounces at mcn.edu on behalf of Leslie Johnston
Sent: Fri 10/17/2008 8:14 PM
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Subject: [MCN-L] digital media migration
 
All,

I'd be interested in hearing from anyone who has recently taken on a media migration project, e.g., retrieving legacy digitization output files from data CDs and DVDs, external hard drives, etc., for transfer to live disk and/or tape.  I'm particularly interested in what sort of transfer stations other institutions have built for this purpose.  I do not yet have an exhaustive inventory of what media we might be working with, but we suspect it's predominantly CDs burned over a 15 year period.  The formats are primarily image files, although there are of course audio, video, PDF, and text files as well.  

Leslie

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Leslie Johnston
Digital Media Project Coordinator
Office of Strategic Initiatives
Library of Congress
202-707-2801
lesliej at loc.gov
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