Date: Wed, 18 Mar 1998 07:18:23 +0100 From: Poul-Henning Kamp <phk@critter.freebsd.dk> To: William Maddox <maddox@p-1.Eng.Sun.COM> Cc: freebsd-hardware@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: CD-R and Scanner recomendations for CD archiving of records? Message-ID: <1613.890201903@critter.freebsd.dk> In-Reply-To: Your message of "Tue, 17 Mar 1998 15:19:22 PST." <Pine.GSO.3.96.980317144022.23331B-100000@p-1>
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In message <Pine.GSO.3.96.980317144022.23331B-100000@p-1>, William Maddox writes: > the most important question is "How stable is a >successfully written, verified, and properly stored CDR over time?" >I've seen archival lifespans quoted from between 30 and 100 years. >What other medium would you suggest for 5 to 25 year storage? Paper-tape, punched cards, barcode on microfilm ? :-) As for CDR living for 30 or 100 years, I'll belive that in 25 or 95 years respectively. -- Poul-Henning Kamp FreeBSD coreteam member phk@FreeBSD.ORG "Real hackers run -current on their laptop." "Drink MONO-tonic, it goes down but it will NEVER come back up!" To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hardware" in the body of the message
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