Keith Heuss ran some interesting test on CD's and found the gold ones were far superior to those with Silver backing. I'll let him supply the details. Kodak and HP CD's tested the best but gold CD's are really getting hard to find in computer stores, at least here in North Texas, without special ordering.
I would suspect the same rules would apply for DVD's as well though they weren't available at the time Keith ran his tests. The greatest advantage to DVD's is the amount of data one will hold versus a CD. I have a suspicion that some of the file data formats will change as some programs become obsolete. I have old files that I can't retrieve the data from because the programs are no longer available. Butch -----Original Message----- From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]]On Behalf Of [email protected] Sent: Monday, September 12, 2005 4:28 PM To: [email protected] Subject: CaveTex: OFF TOPIC: cd storage and lifespan I know that this is off-topic, but I seem to remember a while back that someone(s) had been posting their planned experiment to see just how "permanent" cd-r's were with data backup. I ask this because I see on the back page of the latest Light Impressions catalog that there is a cd they are peddling which claims to be "the 300 Year Disc." Other claims are that it is the "best CD on the market," that its "patented dye makes stored data easier to read," and that "24k gold stops CD rot." Knowing the combined knowledge of the caving community is pretty impressive, does anyone out there have any input on this? I know that with my digital images, the only option I really have for storage is on either CD-R's or DVD's. Which is better, and is this "300 Year Disc" all it claims to be. Of course, if it only lasts 250 years, who do I go to complain to? Vauter -- No virus found in this outgoing message. Checked by AVG Anti-Virus. Version: 7.0.344 / Virus Database: 267.10.23/99 - Release Date: 9/12/2005
