On 8/30/06, karl shah-jenner <shahjen@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
: How convenient will it be in 15 years to extract the contents of your : 300GB IDE HDD? (You did say "long term archiving.") a lot easier than trying to pull data from a 5 year old CD in my experience ;)
Certainly not my experience. I just re-checked my oldest few CD-Rs, 10+ years, and they're still fine (Kodak Photo CDs, which means they're on the Kodak gold disks rather than the cheapest thing that fell off the truck that week). I haven't yet had a CD I burned successfully go bad later. (They're also not the only copies I have of that data.) -- David Dyer-Bennet, <mailto:dd-b@xxxxxxxx>, <http://www.dd-b.net/dd-b/> RKBA: <http://www.dd-b.net/carry/> Pics: <http://www.dd-b.net/dd-b/SnapshotAlbum/> Dragaera/Steven Brust: <http://dragaera.info/>
