OT: are usb flash drives suitable archival media?

[John Summerfield]

Michael Hennebry wrote:
>

> 
> Of course, if you want to protect it from fire
> or other things that might destroy the building,
> you need another building.
> 

and from earthquake, far from California
and from flood, Florida's not the best location...

Depends on the value of the data. Some stuff survives well just by being 
on the Internet. Look me (and a few of your friends) up at googlism.com 
- some of what it says of me actually is about me, though old.

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John

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