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In the Forum: Didital Things
In the Thread: Dubbing LP to digital.

Post Subject: Ultrium 6.Posted by xandcg on: 2/15/2016

I rather prefer to listen to LPs directly than to a digital backup, but point to have a digital backup (IMHO) is related to be relatively safe in the case of a random destructive event happen. We never know when the house will set in fire, or a truck will enter inside the house, and I am about to move to Lisbon which is very prone to earthquakers:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1755_Lisbon_earthquake

Indeed I had living there when the one of 2009 happened, an 8 degree one IIRC.

What always had boring me about that were the fact that the usual digital media (CD, HDD, SSD) being ever worse for archive purposes. CD become unreadable after some decades, HDD/SSD would need to checksum with a relatively periodicy, not to say about file system corruptions...

Today I found out about "Ultrium 6" what seems to be the right thing. I do not know a lot about that but I like the fact of some drivers do not have buffers.

http://www.lto.org

The drivers are (very) expensive but the media have a very reasonable price.
The point is to have a second place to store them.

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