[CVCC] Fw: [cwops] FW: [PVRC] Short Life of Burned CDs

[togburn at wwbt.com]

The good news is that the price on quality CD and DVD media is at the
point that you can remake copies of your CDs and DVDs every year or two
at virtually no cost and not worry about what happens 50 years from now.
Just make a copy onto fresh media and throw the old ones out. I think
the problem is overblown. Also, there is archival media available.

Here's another perspective:

 
http://www.sonymediasoftware.com/forums/ShowMessage.asp?MessageID=432993
&Replies=29


Tom Ogburn
WWBT Television
5710 Midlothian Turnpike
Richmond, VA 23225
804-230-2773

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----- Original Message -----
From: "Jim Talens" <jtalens at verizon.net>
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More on the backup theme, from K2VCO (who is in the business):

de N3JT 

-----Original Message-----
From: Vic Rosenthal [mailto:vic at rakefet.com] 
Sent: Thursday, January 12, 2006 11:54 AM
To: Jim Talens
Cc: cwops
Subject: Re: [cwops] FW: [PVRC] Short Life of Burned CDs

Jim Talens wrote:

> Optical discs may not be your best bet for storing digital media long 
> term, expert says.

...and if you want more bad news, my experience as a software
developer/vendor has been that the quality of floppy diskettes and
drives
has declined so precipitously in the past few years that they must be
considered practically worthless for backup purposes.

Hard drives have quoted MTBFs (Mean Time Before Failure) of astronomical
numbers of hours, but these numbers are very misleading, since they are
based on an assumption that the drives will be replaced on a regular
basis
(see
<http://www.storagereview.com/guide2000/ref/hdd/perf/qual/specMTBF.html>
). 
  The so-called 'service life' of a drive is much more important than
the
MTBF.

As the author of the story Jim quotes says, magnetic tape is probably
the
best backup option.  However, the consumer-type tape drives available
tend
to be poor quality, the software is often buggy, and standards change
regularly.

If you have important data on your PC (or Mac, or Linux box, etc.) then
you
need to think about buying an industrial-strength tape backup solution,
which will have an industrial-strength price.  At this point I don't
have
any recommendations, but I am seriously looking into this for my
business
(which today depends on hard drives and CDs!).

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