CD's are a plastic plate, a foil, (recording material), and a lacquer
coating. They are surprisingly easy to delaminate. If you consider the
label then the paint, adds to the protection, but not much.
Axel Belinfante wrote:
> I thought I had heard/read that the encoding for CD
> was more robust than for DVD (more redundancy in the
> case of CD, which would give you better chance to be
> able to read your data in case of bit rot on the medium).
>
> don't know how much of this is true.
>
> Axel.
>
>
>> DVDs are structurally sounder than CDs. Based on that I'd say the
>> opposite is true.
>>
>> John Graves wrote:
>>
>>> I just wrote my 2007 Picture folder to a DVD. It took about 3.5 Gb and
>>> there is space left. Hmmmm. Not enough pictures.
>>>
>>> I remember reading somewhere that CD's will outlive DVD's . Is this
>>> still true? Does anyone have any idea about the guesstimated lifetime
>>> for a CD vs a DVD?
>>>
>>> TIA,
>>>
>>> John G.
>>> WA1JG
>>>
>
>
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