On Wed, Nov 13, 2013 at 8:04 AM, Felix Miata wrote:
As long as people have floppies and CDs and DVDs they need something to access them. Combining DVDs, CDs and floppies, I have well over 3000, and I know people whose libraries are measured with 5 digits.
I gave up on floppy/CD/DVD RW as long term offline storage when I discovered "bit rot". I had around 600 CDs (several years ago) of data stored (personal videos, photos, music, multimedia etc) all burnt to CD and/or DVD. It was all "stored properly" out of the sun, in individual jewelbox cases etc. None of it survived more than about 5 years. Most was unreadable within 3 years of the burn date. A couple are still valid after 10 or 11 years though... the rare few. * http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bit_rot * http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Disc_rot Given that the well documented bit/disk rot is a real factor... I wonder how many of your 3000 disks have failed... and the people who have libraries measured with 5 digits? I hate to think of how much data they think is stored safely is long gone. C. -- openSUSE 12.3 x86_64, KDE 4.11 -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse-kde+unsubscribe@opensuse.org To contact the owner, e-mail: opensuse-kde+owner@opensuse.org