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  1. Please learn how to make links. by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0 · on NIST Releases Study Of CD/DVD Longevity
    Please learn how to make links.
    <a href="http://www.cdmediaworld.com/hardware/cdrom/c d_dye.shtml">different CD types</a>
    <a href="http://www.mitsuicdr.com/technology/WSJ.com% 20-%20Portals.pdf">WSJ article</a>, in PDF form
    (without any spaces put there by Slashdot) yields:
    different CD types
    WSJ article, in PDF form
    If that's too much typing for you,
    <URL:http://www.cdmediaworld.com/hardware/cdrom/cd _dye.shtml>
    <URL:http://www.mitsuicdr.com/technol ogy/WSJ.com%20-%20Portals.pdf>
    (without any spaces put there by Slashdot) yields:
    http://www.cdmediaworld.com/hardware/cdrom/cd_dye. shtml
    http://www.mitsuicdr.com/technology/WSJ.com%20-%20 Portals.pdf
    (That's only six extra characters per URL you have to type, and you don't even have to remember them, since an example is shown just below the text box you used to type in your comment.)

    Oh, and for you "Well just right-click on the text and click 'Follow Link'." people, tell me how to open a selected-text link containing extraneous Slashdot spaces in a new tab using Mozilla, or shut up.
  2. Please learn how to make links. by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0 · on NIST Releases Study Of CD/DVD Longevity
    Please learn how to make links.
    <a href="http://www.cdmediaworld.com/hardware/cdrom/c d_dye.shtml">different CD types</a>
    <a href="http://www.mitsuicdr.com/technology/WSJ.com% 20-%20Portals.pdf">WSJ article</a>, in PDF form
    (without any spaces put there by Slashdot) yields:
    different CD types
    WSJ article, in PDF form
    If that's too much typing for you,
    <URL:http://www.cdmediaworld.com/hardware/cdrom/cd _dye.shtml>
    <URL:http://www.mitsuicdr.com/technol ogy/WSJ.com%20-%20Portals.pdf>
    (without any spaces put there by Slashdot) yields:
    http://www.cdmediaworld.com/hardware/cdrom/cd_dye. shtml
    http://www.mitsuicdr.com/technology/WSJ.com%20-%20 Portals.pdf
    (That's only six extra characters per URL you have to type, and you don't even have to remember them, since an example is shown just below the text box you used to type in your comment.)

    Oh, and for you "Well just right-click on the text and click 'Follow Link'." people, tell me how to open a selected-text link containing extraneous Slashdot spaces in a new tab using Mozilla, or shut up.
  3. Re:give me permanence or give me bit-death! by Phat_Tony · · Score: 5, Informative · on New ChromaLife 100 Canon Printer Inkset
    Or a properly stored Mitsui (MDM-A) Gold Archival CD will last for over 200 years.

    They're much more resistant to light, scratching, and plain old entropy than other CD's. They're the only digital media certified by the Library of Congress, and most other libraries, as an "archival medium."

    Here's some more info and a place to buy them.

  4. Archival quality CD/DVD blanks by Animats · · Score: 3, Informative · on What Makes a Good CD/DVD Duplicator?
    There are archival quality CD blanks. They use phthalocyanine dyes, which require a slower writing rate but last longer. But the blanks are about $1.50 to $2.00 each, and are not widely available.

    Mitsui claims that their new dye formulation for their DVD-R and DVD+R blanks has a >100 year life, but they don't offer any independent information to back that up.

  5. Re:MAM-A "gold" metallized layer is aluminum not g by bgalehouse · · Score: 5, Informative · on The Myth Of The 100-Year CD-Rom

    Umm... what literature would that be? There is a white paper which explicitly states that the reflective later is 24k gold.

  6. Re:Race to the Bottom by Skipio · · Score: 1 · on The Myth Of The 100-Year CD-Rom

    You can still buy those CD-Rs under the Mitsui name. Kodak didn't actually manufacture their own CD-R but bought them from Mitsui.

  7. Suspect by KevinDumpsCore · · Score: 2, Informative · on The Myth Of The 100-Year CD-Rom

    The studies that are linked are very suspect... The linked articles mention that they use ordinary, off-the-shelf CD-ROMs. The Library of Congress study is skewed because all samples were for CDs manufactured before 1997. This is like studying current car safety by grabbing some old Corvairs out of a junkyard. (Were the CDs commercial-quality or archival-quality?)

    Well, I know that hospitals use more expensive, archival-quality CD+Rs. I wonder how the results would change if they used CD+Rs like these:

    Medical CD+Rs

    Archive CD+Rs

  8. Suspect by KevinDumpsCore · · Score: 2, Informative · on The Myth Of The 100-Year CD-Rom

    The studies that are linked are very suspect... The linked articles mention that they use ordinary, off-the-shelf CD-ROMs. The Library of Congress study is skewed because all samples were for CDs manufactured before 1997. This is like studying current car safety by grabbing some old Corvairs out of a junkyard. (Were the CDs commercial-quality or archival-quality?)

    Well, I know that hospitals use more expensive, archival-quality CD+Rs. I wonder how the results would change if they used CD+Rs like these:

    Medical CD+Rs

    Archive CD+Rs

  9. Archival quality CD-R blanks exist by Animats · · Score: 1 · on Kodak Lagging in Digital World
    There are archival quality CD-R blanks. These supposedly will last a century. But they're about $0.90 each and hard to find. I'm not aware of anybody making archival quality DVD media.

    There's a tradeoff between writing speed and lifetime. The archival blanks use a different dye and slower writing speeds. (The control information for this is on the blank, and standard CD-R drives read it before writing.)