Volker Kuhlmann wrote: > Can't comment on floppies (anyone still use those other than for > sneakernet?)
I had to pull some old files off a floppy a few months ago. Took me a while just to find it but it read just fine. It was Verbatim Datalife, about 10 years old. I was a little worried as another disc I tried reading made some "bad noises" and resulted in a number of errors. > You can not buy any decent CD-R these days, even less one which had any > longevity tests done to it. I still wouldn't use magnetic media though. > DVD-+R are probably ok, there I rate Verbatim as good. Of course it's > easy to burn important disks on new media every 2 years. I've been thinking about archiving digital photos lately and I'm not terribly impressed with the options right now. My best option might be a slide recorder :) > Alternatively, someone mentioned magneto-optical, but the drive will be > very expensive, and the media will be expensive and relatively > small-capacity. You want something safe, you pay a safe price :) Its a pity MD Data never really took off. Those discs are a decent size and still hold a reasonable amount of data without being too expensive. I have no idea about their longevity though. Cheers, - Dave http://www.digistar.com/~dmann/
