Nothing lasts forever

[craigb]

Might be time to check that you still have those treasured memories.

http://www.computerworld.com.au/inde...71907&eid=-116

[knucklehead]

I'm getting failures on CDs that are only 4 years old.The biggest issue seams to be the backing material lifting or cracking.

Most of us use CDs or DVDs to backup in case of a hard drive failure. My data is typically backuped up to a hard drive and then the hard drive is backed up to disk (now use DVDs).
The irony is that I have had better reliability from hard drives than the backup disks. The backup disks are next to useless after a couple of years but the hard drive is still going strong.

It appears as manufactures push get the disk media as cheap as possible the reliability of hard drives is improving, than again maybe I've just been lucky!

[David L]

Who said modern tecnology is progressive?
Who promoted a paperless society?
There are books that are hundreds of years old, parchments thousands, that are still legibale

And our modern so called highly developed technology only lasts five years if we are lucky, who is kidding whom.

David

[Shedhand]

Who said modern tecnology is progressive?
Who promoted a paperless society?
There are books that are hundreds of years old, parchments thousands, that are still legibale

And our modern so called highly developed technology only lasts five years if we are lucky, who is kidding whom.

David

I use stone tablets....

[Grunt]

The National Archives in the U.S. puts everything on microfilm. The problem with technology is that it changes so fast. Try and find something to read a 5 1/4" floppy. How about an 8" floppy.

They have the U.S. 1960 census data on a medium used by 1960 computers but they don't have anything that can read them anymore.

[silentC]

We always back up to tape. Only use CDs to move stuff arund, like when installing at a client site. Besides, it would take a pallet load of CDs to back all our stuff up.

[Termite]

Some of the cheap, and not so cheap, burnable DVD's around have a lifespan of about 2-3 months, that is if you can get them to burn in the first place.

My local computer store had some spindles of + and - DVD @ $22.00 for 50. I rubished them to the owner and he gave me two to try.

I took them home and ran them both through my disc analyser and printed out the results which I took back to him. Neither one had tracking and focus errors less than 45% and both had areas that were off scale they were that bad. His jaw hit the deck when I showed him the results and he immediatly withdrew them from sale.

If you want quality DVD's for writing to then the International forums that I am a member of will tell you to use only "Taiyo Yuden" or "Verbatim".