[Elecraft] Re: [QRP-L] Re: [WriteLog] Hard Drive Failure, THANKS

[Stuart Rohre]

Just a comment, if you want anything to last really long time, do not trust
your CD's and probably DVDs.

A professional media group of which I am a member has numerous reports of
inability of cross play of CD's from one drive to another, and DVD's.
Neither is considered an archival format among the libraries, archives, and
media types.   They are attractive, but there have been many documented
cases of shedding of reflective coatings, and humidity damage to CD type
media.  Keep any media cool and dry.  (That is why tapes last 60 years in
some cases, if they are kept dry.)

The real problem with archiving, is; will the player for your media still be
working and available to interface with computers 20 years or even 5 years
hence?

Something to think about.  The ONLY universally accepted archival medium
among the experts is paper.  Think about the books hundreds of years old
that are still readable in museums and archives of US and Europe, and Asia.
GL,
Stuart
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