Are there any media that offer "reasonable," if not archival, longevity for digital files? Although I have some respect for posterity, in about 20 years I expect to have little or no involvement in it, anyway.
Allen Zak
On May 1, 2008, at 12:43 PM, Jeff Kelley wrote:
I guarantee the claims are marketing hype. I worked for years at Sony as an Application Engineer and Software Engineer during the beginning days of CDROM. This was when the first 1X burners were tens of thousands of dollars and the gold blanks were $25 to $35 EACH. They kept the blanks locked in a metal cabinet & kept close tabs on them ;)
I've had state of the art, lab quality CDs that were rated at 100 years + die in less than 3 years. I've seen the same quality discs unreadable on a second machine within seconds of burning them. And so on....
CDROMS and DVD media are NOT archival backups. Period.
Jeff
On Thu, May 1, 2008 at 5:22 AM, Eric Goldstein <egoldste@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
This is inaccurate information. Those claims arr marketing hype.
Eric Goldstein
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On 5/1/08, Mark Rabiner <mark@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> Those more expensive gold DVD's are supposed to be ok though.
> I'm getting those.
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