Disasters and Recovery

From: Doug <doug_at_blinkenlights.com>
Date: Sun Jan 17 17:47:35 1999

On 17 Jan 1999, Eric Smith wrote:

> Most everything inside the HDA. Remember the Quantum and Seagate drives that
> wouldn't work after only a few months of storage, because of problems with
> the lubricant?

Sure, but oxidation is the enemy of lubricants, right? It's one thing to
talk about survival of machines in daily use or in typical environments
and another to talk about survival inside a sealed gas filled chamber.

If the archivists haven't already done so, it'd be a good move to simply
list the corruptive influences and which components were suseptible. My
guess that gravity is going to be a problem for some components, like disk
drives.

Influences Components Fix
--------------------------------------------------------------
O2 all inert gas and damn good seal
H2O all desiccants and damn good seal
gravity mechanical ?
int. chemical batteries eliminate
l/t chemical doped SiO2 ?
thermal all temp control (good luck!)
shock all don't bury in California
magnetic...
cosmic...

-- Doug
Received on Sun Jan 17 1999 - 17:47:35 GMT