On 22 Apr 2004 at 22:09, John Poirier wrote:
> The added level of precaution is to burn a copy of each CD on two different
> brands of disc. CD formulations are subject to change without notice, and even
> good brands can have bad batches. ("Gold Dye" discs appear to be the best bet
> for longevity. This type of disc is getting hard to find. Mitsui and Quantegy
> seem to be the prime remaining sources.)
This sounds like good insurance however It's probably a little extreme for most
amateur photographers. I also employ a large RAID array for on-line storage
however I consider HDD on-line or off-line to be more of data integrity risk
than optical media. I've had to attend to many a failed hard disk and a lot
were matched drives in RAID arrays that had suffered near identical material
failures which caused complete loss of data.
Rob Studdert
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