Re: proposal: drop optical media from release criteria

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On Thu, Sep 20, 2018 at 6:08 PM Ed Greshko <ed.greshko@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> On 9/21/18 7:42 AM, Chris Murphy wrote:
> > On Thu, Sep 20, 2018 at 2:47 PM Samuel Sieb <samuel@xxxxxxxx> wrote:
> >
> >> That is true, but there is also a reasonable chance or losing them,
> >> breaking them, or other random failures.  When a flash drive dies, it's
> >> gone, very difficult to recover if even possible.  I would not recommend
> >> a flash drive (or DVD) alone for long-term storage.
> > All CD and DVD consumer burnable (R or RW) are not suitable for long
> > term storage. The dyes used are not gonna very long, maybe a few
> > years. If they're kept in the dark at stable temperature, I'd be
> > surprised if they lasted 5 years. Bluray is a different story, and
> > with proper storage shows some promise of being readable for quite a
> > while, but you're gonna have to put a drive, cables, and a computer
> > into cold storage along with the discs so... good luck.
> >
>
> FWIW, I think I must be very lucky.  I have just checked several of my TDK DVD-RW
> disks that were written between 2003 and 2005.
> I'd forgotten all about them until reading this.  They've been sitting on the top of
> a cabinet that is exposed to indirect sunlight and temp ranges of
> between the 60's and 80's and high humidity.  (I fight with my wife about the A/C in
> the summer).
>
> All of them read just fine.  Which is good since I'd been looking for the photos of
> one of our departed cats which were "lost" due to an HD failure.

Yes, lucky. Make copies, quick!


-- 
Chris Murphy
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