CD rot

[samsc]

this is not related to catalyst - but is going to affect all of us.

CD- rot, they are going to stop working much sooner than people expect....

so the last 20 years will vanish.

just like the whole history of computing.

http://www.sltrib.com/2004/May/05062...ess/163656.asp

[peppe]

this is not related to catalyst - but is going to affect all of us.

CD- rot, they are going to stop working much sooner than people expect....

so the last 20 years will vanish.

just like the whole history of computing.

http://www.sltrib.com/2004/May/05062...ess/163656.asp

This is important!
Paintings,statues or other "real" artwork will be there in the future, maybe our digital art stored on CD/DVD´s will be forgotten earlier than we expect.I have made bacups on this media all the time (as most people) but also have everything on DVCam that I hope are reliable.
I did this because of it was very often that the disc´s seem to be bad from the beginning (I always use HQ media in my studio,I think it is worth the extra buck) but even with that, some disc´s are bad.

Maybe DVCam also will "rot",hopefully not. (I have videocasettes that my children been attacking hard and jump on them for years, but they still work, and you know what a little scratch can do on a CD)

[samsc]

dvcam will rot too.

digital formats are much more vulnerable than analogue.

in this game we have no backups available. too much data.
i just have a load of old hard discs sitting around...

[Spam Butterfly]

CD rot has always been an issue. I have been aware of this since I first started using CD-R in 1992... CD-R and DVD-R are NOT archival quality and never have been.

Hugh

[samsc]

i think dvd-r is supposed to be worse or better depending on which reports you read.

Im inclined towards thinking dvd-r is even more fragile and unstable than cd-r