P Witte wrote: ... >>I have serious doubts whether modern, CD-ROM based systems could keep >>the data for so long. I would never use CDs or DVDs for long-term >>storage of important data. > > CDs and DVDs are the "medium of the day" (as were microdrives and > floppies in their day). Round the next corner are HD and Blu-ray, > perhaps, so then we'll have to copy all our important data once again.
Wasn't there a report [fairly] recently about writeable CDs becoming unreadable after a while, the time also dependent upon method of labelling said CD? see, eg: http://searchwincomputing.techtarget.com/tip/0,289483,sid68_gci1157306,00.html http://www.postgazette.com/pg/04127/311683.stm http://photo.net/bboard/q-and-a-fetch-msg?msg_id=00EoLc _______________________________________________ QL-Users Mailing List http://www.q-v-d.demon.co.uk/smsqe.htm
