Re: archiving P2 cards

Yes drive connections do change, and that is why I still have a syquest EZ135 drive sitting in my drawer!!1

For 90% of our clients, we will backup their show to a selects reel, to tape. Our biggest client, this works great for. they aren't interested in keeping the OK shots, they just want to archive the best of the best. After the show is done, we make a selects reel to Tape(usually DVCPRO50), we archive thier show to a HD, sit it on the shelf. I have asked around the industry, and no one know the shelf life of a HD, just sitting there. I don't know why, but I feel more comfortable with a HD than with DVD's or CD's. Maybe I have just had so many of them go bad on me.

The neverending debate, will, I fear, never end. But, its good to hear pros/cons and other's ideas. My boss is a real fanatic about ease of use, and convienence. About the only way i could get him to use packet tape BU's is to get an auto loader library system. But he just dropped 60G's on a HPX2000 setup, so that might have to wait until next year....

Matt