I have music CDs that are over twenty years old and still play well. I don't know if that's the same as a data CD. I have checked some of my earliest picture file DVDs, which are about five years old. Thus far, they're all fine. Is there a technical explanation for why these storage devices wouldn't be semi permanent? The files can't fade or walk away. At least not so far as I know. Paul -------------- Original message ---------------------- From: Xavier Cremaschi <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Be careful, a cd lives for 10 years, a dvd for less than that (5 maybe) > > http://le-gall.net/sylvain+violaine/blog/index.php?2007/10/21/31-reading-a-10-ye > ars-old-cd-r > > [EMAIL PROTECTED] a écrit : > > I do back up to DVD. I have several hundred in storage. My five drives give > > me > over two terabytes of space. They're about 70% full now. I'll add another 500 > gigs soon. I keep very few backups on drives, save temporary backups for > important jobs. The general backups are almost exclusively on DVD. > > Paul > > -------------- Original message ---------------------- > > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Ralf R. Radermacher) > > > >> <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >> > >> > >>> I do work on a Mac, but I doubt that makes a difference. > >>> > >> So do I. > >> > >> If you get along with 5 hard drives, you just don't have enough picture > >> files. :-) > >> > >> The problem some of us are having is that we have so much stuff that we > >> need to keep some of it (the vast majority in my case) on external > >> drives which aren't connected all the time or on removeable media. > >> > >> Ralf > >> > >> -- > >> Ralf R. Radermacher - DL9KCG - Köln/Cologne, Germany > >> private homepage: http://www.fotoralf.de > >> manual cameras and photo galleries - updated Jan. 10, 2005 > >> Contarex - Kiev 60 - Horizon 202 - P6 mount lenses > >> > >> -- > >> PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List > >> [email protected] > >> http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net > >> to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and > >> follow > >> the directions. > >> > > > > > > > > > -- > PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List > [email protected] > http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net > to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow > the directions.
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