Remember that no storage medium, including tape, optical disks, spinning disks and flash memory, is completely immune from failure.

You should bear this in mind when deciding how to manage your recorded content. At the very least, you should consider the consequences for you and your business if your storage medium were to suffer from a sudden failure, and you should back up your content accordingly. Hard drives

that you can use for archiving are becoming increasingly affordable. You may find that it is completely feasible for your to keep your master Sumo19 disks on a shelf (just like tapes!), and, as a backup, store copies on large hard drives, RAID arrays, Network Attached Storage (NAS) or LTO