>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 :-) > That last sentence sounds exactly like what I would imagine programmers were saying 15 years ago about Y2K... :) Adrian (who will certainly not be retired in 15 years...)
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