XPost: comp.os.linux.advocacy, comp.os.linux.misc   
   From: rich@example.invalid   
      
   In comp.os.linux.misc Nux Vomica  wrote:   
   > It seems that a lot of users are, irrationally, opposed to the   
   > use of optical media for long-term archival storage.   
      
   Having personally experienced failures of both cd-r and dvd-r media   
   wherein the recorded media became unreadable in a very short timeframe   
   (only a few years) even with proper storage it is not at all irrational   
   to be skeptical of claims of significant lifetimes for optical media   
   (esp.  the user recordable type, pressed disks are a different matter).   
   Existing user recordable optical systems have, so far, had a poor track   
   record, so any new system has a higher bar to get over before it is   
   trusted for any long-term archive use.   
      
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