CD-Rs were Supposed to Last Forever! @ Auphan Online

Lincoln Russell 12 May, 2006 at 9:57am ET Article published in Tech

CD-R and DVD-R technologies are a bit misleading. Although CD and DVD can last over a 100 years, their recordable counter parts fair much worse. Is there a solution? Yes there is.

Source: Auphan Online

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12 May 2006 ~ 10:41am GHoosdum I'm disappointed. I thought that the solution would be bacterial DNA storage or teleportation to a locked vault on the moon, but it's so much more mundane.
12 May 2006 ~ 11:22am RADA

From Article: wrote:

What causes the media to fail? Exposure to light, heat, oxygen, humidity and rough handling.

OK, now all I have to do is put all my burned CDs/DVDs in a place with no light, thats cold, has no air or humidity, with lots of padding...

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YOU GOT IT GHoos!!!! :headbange

Anybody got a couple billion $ they could spare? We need to build a CD/DVD storage depot on the dark side of the moon..... Oh, and a space shuttle too...
12 May 2006 ~ 12:17pm GrayFox

RADA wrote:

OK, now all I have to do is put all my burned CDs/DVDs in a place with no light, thats cold, has no air or humidity, with lots of padding...

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YOU GOT IT GHoos!!!! :headbange

Anybody got a couple billion $ they could spare? We need to build a CD/DVD storage depot on the dark side of the moon..... Oh, and a space shuttle too...

You also should use gold cd-r's they last slightly longer.

edit: I still have a 2X gold disk that has windows 98 first edition on it and it works fine its at least 7 years old probably older.
12 May 2006 ~ 2:11pm shwaip What causes the media to fail? Exposure to light, heat, oxygen, humidity and rough handling

a freezer takes care of 4 of those.
12 May 2006 ~ 3:44pm Thrax Vaccuum seal it, and put it in a freezer.