----- Original Message ----- From: "Ralf R. Radermacher" Subject: Reliabilty of CD storage - was: Lightroom 2.0 beta
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Most of my film scans are stored on CDs, and they still read well. Keep your fingers crossed. I've had serious trouble with a whole bunch of CDRs containing my back-ups of film scan data. They were stored in specially made CD paper jackets, the kind commonly used in books or commercial software packages. These jackets, bought from a local CD production company, had self-adhesive flaps and it appears something evaporating from this adhesive has damaged the CDs in the jacket to the point that they've become unredable. All this after about four years of storage. There was a distinct brownish colouring of the CDs in the section whch had been next to the flap. I've had a few CDs go bad, stored in plastic jewel cases. I've always tried to buy name brand ones such as Verbatim or Fuji, and I have always verified the data after the write. It's just the luck of the draw, I guess. I'm pretty close to buying an external RAID of some sort, and I will probably transfer as many of my files over to it from the CDs as is practical. William Robb -- 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.
