Old media will become obsolete and degrade ofer time. It is best to copy to modern media. The files should be stored based on their SHA hash code, so that duplicates need not be stored. You can't have too many copies.

In order for anomymous communication to be possible through tor, javascript must be disabled. This cannot stand if we are to have the freedom of doing things safely from preview of governments and others.

Let me rephrase this. The web application I use was on a read-only database which was recoverable. The uptime requirements were low. I used 3 SSD drives in a raid 0 configuration to attain 1800 MB/s transfer rate, which was constant whether or nto the read was sequential or random. That is faster than a 10GBe connection to any SAN configuration, much less expensive, and much more responsive. The machine has been running for one year in a 24x7 operation without issue. Obviously, RAID configurations let us mitigate speed and safety requirements on storage systems regardless of their underlying media. But for my real case example, the perfromance and reliability is incredible.

By switching to SSD's on a data intensive web application, I got 20 times speed improvement - from 20 hits per second to 400. I trust SSDs more than physical spindles any day.

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Yes, it was Time Traveler. I got one a few years back and figured out how it worked, even made my computer make displays on it. Inside, a curved black sperical concave mirror would transpose the image upside down. The trick was that the object was filmed on a glassy surface, so the mirror of the object was recorded. The eye, seeing the object and the mirror of the object, determined the 3d depth by the distance between the object and the mirror. Anyways, it was neat. But it is still patented by Sega.