Re:Sony and Panasonic announce the Archival Disc format
by rbanffy on Monday March 10, 2014 @06:56PM
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> Huh, so to you, you assume that something labelled "archival" means "is especially fragile, must be treated with care", that's what "archival" and "treated so" means to you?
No. I just suppose that packing that much information so tightly, encoded in such small features on a plastic disc, will make the recording more fragile. It's like printing all your text with a 3-point font. You can print a lot of text on a single page, but any damage to the page may make large parts unreadable.
As for long term preservation, I'd never suggest keeping your data on the same medium for any significantly long time. And never, ever, under no circumstances, find yourself with a single copy of anything.
No. I just suppose that packing that much information so tightly, encoded in such small features on a plastic disc, will make the recording more fragile. It's like printing all your text with a 3-point font. You can print a lot of text on a single page, but any damage to the page may make large parts unreadable.
As for long term preservation, I'd never suggest keeping your data on the same medium for any significantly long time. And never, ever, under no circumstances, find yourself with a single copy of anything.