On 9 Dec 2003 at 23:07, Johannes Gebauer wrote:

> On 09.12.2003 22:21 Uhr, David W. Fenton wrote
> 
> > Yes, this is audio, so it's perhaps different from data, but the
> > point is this: CDs are not even close to being a permanent data
> > storage method.
> 
> Same with Data. I had a concert recording stored as SD II files on a
> CD, which went bad. No way the CD can be read, it always chokes on it,
> and one file is no longer usable. That does teach you. I am not even
> sure how I am going to avoid such problems in the future. At least
> with CDs I can be relatively certain that I can still buy CD drives in
> 20 years time.

Large hard drives. Store the source files or store the disk images. 
At 650-700MBs for the images, a 100GB hard drive will hold well over 
100 CDs. And it just isn't all that expensive any more.

-- 
David W. Fenton                        http://www.bway.net/~dfenton
David Fenton Associates                http://www.bway.net/~dfassoc

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