From: Lan Barnes <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Slashdot pointed to this. Expert says burned CDs have an expected lifetime of 2 - 5 years. http://computerworld.com/hardwaretopics/storage/story/0,10801,107607,00.html Bad news for those of us planning to pass photo albums to our kids in 30 years on CD. The suggestion to use mag tape is ... well, not very practical and doesn't solve much, at least for the home user. We can hope he's wrong, but hope is a poor strategy, especially for back up. Any thoughts? Hopefully CD-R isn't the last advance in storage technology, but what to do while waiting for the cavalry to arrive? And what was all that stuff about "blue laser"?
Redundancy. CDs are cheap. Make 3 copies, keep at least one in a safety deposit box. Every 2 years, make 3 new copies, throw out the possibly degraded ones. If you have such a high failure rate 3 seems insufficient, scale up.
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