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   From: rotflol2@hotmail.com   
      
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   On 2024-09-27, Rich  wrote:   
   > 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.   
   >   
   >   
      
   I've generally had very positive experiences with CD and DVD ROM's I've   
   burned.  I've used Verbatim disks, and I have disks that are 20 years   
   old that are still fine.  BUT I do have a few disks, which I think were   
   from the same spindle, which started to degrade from the edge, from what   
   I suspect was a manufacturing defect.   
      
   I use hard drives, as it is easy (and cheap) to make copies.  Using   
   BTRFS you can protect against what would otherwise been undetected   
   errors.  I have files that I've transferred from computer to computer,   
   back from 1994-1995.  These exist because I've simply made copies.  So   
   as this has worked for me, that is how I archive.  On hard disk, making   
   copies.   
      
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