Say Goodbye To Your CD-Rs In Two Years?

Little Hamster writes "According to an article on cdfreaks.com, a test done by the Dutch PC-Active magazine showed that among 30 different CD-R brands tested, a lot of them were already unreadable after twenty months. This is shocking, and makes me wonder how should I backup my data, photo and music collection."

Comments

Re:Oh no!

[mickwd]

Yeah, you're CD-ROM drive won't be able to read it any more.....

.....Maybe it went blind ?

Re:CD = Inferior Storage Technology

[AKnightCowboy]

So please, don't call an HD that is in the same computer, or even the same server rack, your backup. However, a network connected machine on the other side of your building will do just fine.

That's what I tried telling those RIAA bastards but they won't believe me. Putting my CD backups on Kazaa was simply the safest backup investment I could've ever made. Then they came along and labelled me a pirate! A pirate!? I'm just trying to backup my valuable data! Where better than in a distributed format strewn all across the Internet? Even if the entire United States were to blow up I could still retrieve my data from China! Please RIAA, think of the backups.

Re:Oh no!

[Bob McCown]

Why does every porn joke get instantly rated "5, Funny"?

Priorities, my man, priorities!

Re:Oh no!

[orthogonal]

Why does every porn joke get instantly rated "5, Funny"?

I'd explain, but it takes too long given that I'm typing one-handed.

C= 1541

[DG]

True story:

I had a 1541 that wouldn't stay aligned for more than a couple of hours. One day, I smacked the drive in pure frustration while it was gronking away - and the sonofabitch loaded.

From that time forward, SOP for loading any C=64 program was:

1) load *,8,1 [enter]
2) watch drive light come on
3) swat drive
4) PROFIT!!!!

DG

Re:floppy disks

[filledwithloathing]

But what will you do when the aliens invade and blow up the moon as a "warning shot"?

... welcome our new Invading Alien Overlords?

Cuneiform Tablets

[thales]

Sorry paper rots over time, and there is always danger of a fire. The ultimate backup is cuneiform on clay tablets. They remain readable after thousands of years.