Hal Merritt pisze:
Which flavor of CDROM or DVD are you referring to? The life expectancy of the media is one consideration, but also the availability of hardware to retrieve the data. I would submit that that is not predictable enough to entrust the family jewels.
The same apply to cheap tape solutions. However you are right.
Besides, what about BluRay? Some say the CD is already a long dead technology with the DVD right behind. Indeed, I seem to recall a couple of CD drives in my junkbox because they are not usable on newer PC's.
It depends on what you mean by saying "dead". Media are widely available
and due to CD-Audio popularity I bet it would be available for years.
Drives are also available, every DVD drive can read CD. Problem with
your drives come from drive interface. So called PATA is no longer
available in home PCs. If you'd chosen more professional interface like
SCSI then your drives would be still attachable. However you can buy a
drive with contemporary SATA interface and still read/write CDs. Or you
can buy an external bay, USB attached with PATA internal interface. Or
buy PATA card, or...
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