Archival storage

[Tony Duell]

> 
> At 05:55 PM 10/11/2005, Patrick Finnegan wrote:
> >At 700MB/cd, it'd be about 12 reams per CD, not 92.  92 reams would get 
> >you about 5.4GB, which is more than a (single-sided, single layer) 
> >DVD-R holds.
> 
> My math:
> 
> 472,500 bits per page 
> 945,000 bits per double-sided page 
> 118,125 bytes per double-sided page 
> 681,574,400 bytes per 650 M CD 
> 5,452,595,200 bits per CD 
> 46,160 pages 
> 92 reams 
> 59,062,500 bytes per ream 

Without checking it (it's late, OK...) the ratio of 'about 92 reams' to 
'about 12 reams' is about 8. Is there a bits/bytes mixup somewhere?

-tony