On 2/9/06, Shane Hathaway <shane at hathawaymix.org> wrote: > Personally, I'd pick UDO if it weren't proprietary. As things stand > right now, I don't know which I'd pick. Can't you take an ATA drive off line for 10 years and plug it back in when you need the data? Does the drive need to constantly re align the magnetic dipoles on the disk? Justin