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Re: Do Burned CDs Have a Short Life Span? Add best before date to your copies
Subject:Re: Do Burned CDs Have a Short Life Span? Add best before date to your copies From:Peter Sturgeon <prsturgeon -at- yahoo -dot- com> To:Dan Goldstein <DGoldstein -at- riverainmedical -dot- com>, TECHWR-L <techwr-l -at- lists -dot- techwr-l -dot- com> Date:Thu, 12 Jan 2006 09:10:29 -0500 (EST)
Consider adding a best-before date of say 4 years to your copies. And
remind yourself to check them out.
I'm checking my older CDs when I get home tonight:)
--- Dan Goldstein <DGoldstein -at- riverainmedical -dot- com> wrote:
> See http://tinyurl.com/7mjx3
>
> Gerecke's numbers (five years for a _high-quality_ burnable CD) are
> scarier than what we've heard previously.
>
> In the case of digital images, magnetic tape might be the best bet.
> However, in the case of tech docs and uncompiled source code, why not
> back it up onto good old paper? Worse comes to worst, you can scan it
> back into digital.
>
> -- Dan Goldstein
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