Based on the assumption you recently lost some CD-R data..... A recent article in Adobe's magazine discusses the stability or digital media. Apparently, the life span of the CD-R has been vastly over estimated, and they now give 30 years as a maximum storage life. The problem, of course, is that there is now such much data on this medium, and it all needs to be re-recorded every 15 years or so to fresh media, but this obviously won't happen. They state that thus far, the most durable storage media is acid free paper, followed by microfiche. I guess this means we should be refreshing our CD-R recorded FCS data files every decade?? Just a reminder to store your CD-R's on end, as storing them flat will encourage warping of the media. This goes for any optical storage medium. Hopefully we can all retire before this becomes a problem :-) kb -- ----------------------------------------------- Keith Bahjat Graduate Assistant University of Florida College of Medicine Gainesville, Florida kbahjat@ufl.edu ---------- >From: "Woda, Marcia" <Marcia.Woda@umassmed.edu> >To: Cytometry Mailing List <cytometry@flowcyt.cyto.purdue.edu> >Subject: facs archive media >Date: Wed, Jul 28, 1999, 2:53 PM > > > The only enduring media for archived data is stone if one is not properly > maintaining the stockpile. > > > > > > > > Marcia Woda > Manager, FACS Shared Instrument Facility > Univ. of Mass Medical School > Worcester, Ma. 01655 > > http://www.umassmed.edu/facslab >
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