Good points, though I tend to put them in paper sleeves. :( Digistor is flogging "Archive Grade Recordable Media at Consumer Grade Price", I wonder if there truly is a difference. I know I'd be willing to pay more for a disk that would last >10 years if I were putting backup data or original material on it, vs. backing up a DVD (well okay that wouldn't be a BD) or archiving TiVo recordins.
The "Archive for Life[TM]" disks bottom out at 99c for BD and $4.25 for BD-DL. I know there's a huge range in quality of DVD-Rs and assume the same of BD. -- Andrew mailto:[email protected] Saturday, July 2, 2011, 2:12:30 PM, you wrote: > On 07/02/11 13:09, James H. E. Maugham wrote: >> Jonathan Berry wrote: >> >>> DVD or BD disks might fit into >>> your plans, though. Mileage varies. >> While I have several TBs of HD storage, I find myself reaching for one of my >> 16GB or larger flash drives for archival purposes far more often than a CD >> or DVD. >> >> Can't remember the last time I burned a disc. >> >> James > Archiving to a static sensitive medium is not a great idea. Time and time > again I have gotten sad tales from friends of their sticks not working, with > lots of important stuff on them. > I think the larger capacity disks are better in this regard, but I have > a sick > 8G stick waiting for me to look at it, next time a friend gets my way. > DVDs/CDs aren't prone to that, and unless left in the sun where the UV > will kill them, are stable for several years. The Taiyo Yuden media will > last a long time (decades), if stored in a dark place, in holders that only > grasp the inside ring and not touch the rest of the DVD/CD. > A friend and family went on vacation some years ago, and a water pipe > partly burst and left the basement in several feet of water. Coming home > to their new disaster, a horror dawned on the son, that the backup > box, full of DVDs was submerged. Washing each DVD they put them > into a system and cloned them. All but one survived the dunking, which > I got and managed to get almost half the data off of. > Properly stored DVDs, and maybe 8mm tapes are the best long term > archival media I know of. I know that lots of the 9 track tapes I have > are not in good condition, nor are the 1.2M floppies from the 80's. > Backup disks are good, but I worry about how long you can have them > idle and still spin up ok. Given the new technologies in disks today, > I don't think the smaller disks of the past give us much of a clue. > I tell folks at work to get multiple smaller disks and have several > backups, rather than buying a 3T disk, and archiving 50M to it at a > time. > --STeve Andre' > _______________________________________________ > Thinkpad mailing list > [email protected] > http://stderr.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/thinkpad _______________________________________________ Thinkpad mailing list [email protected] http://stderr.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/thinkpad
