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NIST Releases Study Of CD/DVD Longevity
dirkin writes "The National Institute of Standards and Technology has released a preliminary study of the potential lifespan of CD-Rs and DVD-Rs. The PDF study is here. A good starting point for deciding what type of media to purchase to keep those backups and photos kicking around longer. (You DID buy the silver/gold alloy phthalocyanine CDs, didn't you?)"
My pr0n my precious precious prOn!
Lots and lots and lots and lots and lots and lots of floppies.
Jonahweb.com has stuff.
Take now into account earth's rotation and its magnetic field. It induces an albeit very slow movement of the molecules - the data layer degradation. The same effect causes btw certain currents in the Pacific oceans. While the movement is very slow and in the case of the ocean not very important, it does cause damage after a certain amount of time in the case of a CD-R. You should remember that the scale of the information storage units on a CD-R is in the nanometer range. The information is just "washed away" in an entropy-like effect.
However, you can slow this movement down. The molecular movement in the data layer is directed. So it can be reversed to a certain degree just be placing the CD-R the other way around. So, all you have to do is to mark the position of the CD-R in your rack exactly. And reverse it's position every month or so. This can increase to the lifetime of a CD-R about 150 percent. More can't achieved (in normal environment) because electric machines like your computer etc. create their own electro-magnetic fields. And the effects of these varing fields are much more difficult to negate.
BTW: the 100 percent wrong place to store your CD-Rs is on the top of your CRT.
Owner of a Mensa membership card.
Or put it in your Kazaa folder and give the filesi maginative names like "horny young teen sex party.mpg", etc... You need to maintain a porn name real name table though in case you'll need the backups again. :-)
Beware: In C++, your friends can see your privates!
With respect Sir, most people you know don't download nearly enough pr0n.
I find your ideas intriguing and I wish to subscribe to your newsletter.
Mine will be kept on a real Hard Disk. What I have now is a 120GB, 7,200 rpm Maxtor HD, which has never disappointed me at all.
Discerning pr0n collectors choose silver/gold alloy phthalocyanine CDs.
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I still think that corn CDs are the best idea... you'll just need to reburn every once in a while.
It only becomes a problem if you're a big nacho fan...
I just write mine down as ones and zeros on paper. It takes me a few months to do a full system backup, but it would take the government years to accomplish the same task. I figure I'll be saved by the statute of limitations by the time they figure out what I've been doing.
"I still have tons of 5" floppy disks"
That could be a problem, since the only drives around are for 5.25" disks.
-Anonymous Phil
Only problem is, the message gets corrupted really, really fast. Witness the Religious Right in America. Or medieval Europe. Or the tail end of the Roman Empire.
"Hardly used" will not fetch you a better price for your brain.
I store all my data in FBI digital case files. The government will obviously never have a system in place that can read them, so I'm safe.
I'm Rick James with mod points biatch!
That's what makes it such a great archival medium. Centuries from now, holographic storage will still be "almost here", so you never have to worry about it becoming obsolete.