Re:Sony and Panasonic announce the Archival Disc format
by kalleboo on Monday March 10, 2014 @08:38AM
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> My general experience with CDs and DVDs is that two out of every three you burn will be unreadable the moment you burn them
Just a few weeks ago I actually took my old spindles of CD-Rs and DVD-Rs out of storage and moved into Amazon Glacier. The disks had dates from 1999-2007. My results were that out of 80 or so discs, 5 of them had unrecoverable errors (thank god for dd_rescue).
These were burned in my youth, so the method I picked disc brands was "the cheapest disks that aren't those uncoated foil noname ones"
Just a few weeks ago I actually took my old spindles of CD-Rs and DVD-Rs out of storage and moved into Amazon Glacier. The disks had dates from 1999-2007. My results were that out of 80 or so discs, 5 of them had unrecoverable errors (thank god for dd_rescue).
These were burned in my youth, so the method I picked disc brands was "the cheapest disks that aren't those uncoated foil noname ones"