I recently bought a spindle of Kodak Ultima Silver+Gold CDs. How are these rated? dan c. At 11:08 AM 30-11-02 +0000, luis wrote: > > Gregory writes: > >>I did a show recently about another topic. One of the guests talked >about CD archival storage and that the Library of Congress had >found some data being lost on CDs after 15 years. I'm talking about >two years ago, and that at that time gold plated CDs were >considered the best for archival storage. > > The Kodak gold CDs (no longer made), according to Kodak had an archival life of 100+ years if stored in darkness, not played, and at >40 degrees. People are reporting lost data now within that 15 yr >interval as Gregory's guest reported, and some cheap "bargain" >disks (the kind most people buy) are losing data much sooner than that Then there's loss through damage from handling (scratches, etc) and accidents. > >
