Re: Archive 20GB?

From	Grant Edwards <invalid@invalid.invalid>
Newsgroups	comp.os.linux.misc
Subject	Re: Archive 20GB?
Date	2011-05-25 16:13 +0000
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On 2011-05-25, Keith Keller <kkeller-usenet@wombat.san-francisco.ca.us> wrote:
> On 2011-05-25, Mark <i@dontgetlotsofspamanymore.invalid> wrote:
>>
>> I would estimate the odds of being able to read a DVDR or RW after 10
>> years to be very small.
>
> Why do you say that?

CDs have a variety of known aging-related failure mechanism.

> We can still read 3.5" floppies, after all.

Sometimes, if you're lucky.  I've seen a lot of floppy disks go bad.

> If you've still got the hardware you could probably still read a
> 5.25" floppy even.
>
> In 10 years we won't be able to read floppy disks, but it's hard to
> imagine not being able to read DVD media in that time.

If you've read any of the test reports on how CDs and DVDs age, it's
not hard to imagine at all.

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