On 13/11/13 18:25, C wrote:
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.
A good reason to buy what are considered to be the best and not buy el cheapo CDs or DVDs. And which is why I only buy Verbatim discs[#] (made in Singapore, Japan, or Taiwan but not elsewhere). I have CDs/DVDs over 10 years old which are perfect. [#] Look at the site(s) dealing with audio/video media and you will find that there are 2 mfgers (when the last time I looked) who produced media worth relying on. Verbatim was one of them. BC -- Using openSUSE 13.1, KDE 4.11.2 & kernel 3.12.0-1 on a system with- AMD FX 8-core 3.6/4.2GHz processor 16GB PC14900/1866MHz Quad Channel Corsair "Vengeance" RAM Gigabyte AMD3+ m/board; Gigabyte nVidia GTX660 OC 2GB DDR5 GPU -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse-kde+unsubscribe@opensuse.org To contact the owner, e-mail: opensuse-kde+owner@opensuse.org