Re:
> Hi Denys :)
> Ok... 5 years seems kinda short? I mean I have music cd's that are still
> great after oh... about 13+ years... are you referring to CD-R's? I was
Denys wrote:
> > I have news for you my friend. CD-ROMs start going bad after 5 years. CD
> is
> > definitely not a long term storage solution.
I have to agree with Denys. The subject arose recently on the
Classic Computer mailing list, where people are interested in preserving
really old stuff :)
The consensus was that CDROMs are specified for about 5 years.
IIRC, reel tapes are about 10 years. I don't recall DDS/DAT or DLT specs.
BTW, we've recently been reading a bunch of old reel tapes for a customer,
and have had a couple of problems out of 20+ tapes. The oldest we've read
for them so far was about 18 years old (and it had no problems).
Stan Sieler [log in to unmask]
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