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 _______________________________________________ test mailing list -- test@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe send an email to test-leave@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx Fedora Code of Conduct: https://getfedora.org/code-of-conduct.html List Guidelines: https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines List Archives: https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/test@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
