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From: careyk@uhccux.uhcc.Hawaii.Edu (Carey Kinoshita)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.hardware
Subject: Worm Drives
Message-ID: <10443@uhccux.uhcc.Hawaii.Edu>
Date: 29 Nov 90 07:42:24 GMT
Reply-To: careyk@uhccux.UUCP (Carey Kinoshita)
Organization: University of Hawaii
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I am thinking of backing up a lot of data by using a WORM drive.  
I am thinking of renting a WORM drive and storing all my data 
on Write-Once Optical Discs.  Since in the future I plan to 
restore the data, I have to choose a WORM drive format that is widely
available and would be in the future.  I was wondering is there a 
international or united states standard for WORM formats?  If not, what 
format & drive is the most prevalent in the United States?  

I also had a question about Optical Magneto Discs.  If you take once of
those discs and expose it to a professional cassette tape eraser, would
the data on the disc become corrupted or would the disc have to be heated
to be erased?  I am primarily concerned with people sabotaging archived
data without me knowing it and am trying to find the best way to archive
the data.  Thanks.