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Lengthy discussion on the Jiscmail TASI list
recently - answer for CD archiving seems to be Mitsui Gold Ultra
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Sent: Monday, February 02, 2004 8:43
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Subject: <ambit> archive thread -
Subject: CD-R/DVD longevity
The US National Institute of Standards and Technologies has
recently
completed a guide to the care and handling of CD and DVD
media:
<URL: http://www.itl.nist.gov/div895/carefordisc/
>
There are no
specific product recommendations, but they do give
clear guidelines about
disc types (gold CD-R, DVD-R or DVD+R) and
storage conditions (upright,
cool, dark, low humidity). There's a
handy one page summary on the
web:
<URL: http://www.itl.nist.gov/div895/carefordisc/disccare.html
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Fred
Langa of The LangaList <URL: http://www.langa.com/
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has addressed the
issue. Excerpt from
<URL: http://www.langa.com/newsletters/2003/2003-11-06.htm
>:
How *Not* To Mess Up Stored CDRs!
Be careful! Even
little things--including the glue on stick-on
labels--can ruin your CDRs.
That's one of the things
your fellow readers and I found when we
went back and
tested long-stored CDs. In my case, the only disks
that
failed were those that I had covered with a glue-on
paper
label from a print-it-yourself CD label-maker kit.
Several of
these labeled CDs were, in fact, totally
unreadable by every
means I tried (including special
data recovery software); all
the data on those CDs is
just plain gone. My best guess is the
glue on these
do-it-yourself labels interacted with either the
foil or
the dye, rendering the CDs useless.
All the info we
have on unusual CDR failures and what you can do
about
them, appears in the new article live now at
<URL: http://www.informationweek.com/story/
showArticle.jhtml?articleID=15800263>
I'll also
include links to other articles, from the general to
the
deeply technical, so you can explore this issue to
whatever
depth you want.
http://www.1010.co.uk
http://fm01.druh.co.uk
mob.
+447789841570
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