8 Mar
2006
8 Mar
'06
1:17 p.m.
I think the tests and articles in question are talking
about the stability
of the dyes used in the MAM-A (formerly Mitsui) CD-Rs. I'd be less
optimistic about the stability of the polymers used for the disc substrate,
but I'm probably not going to be around in 100 years to find out. Finding
CD drives to read the blasted things in 100 years is going to be enough of
a challenge.
I'm guessing that most of us aren't worried about finding a CD-ROM drive in
100 years, we're concerned with the media being readable when we finally get
around to moving it to whatever will be the storage medium of choice at that
point.
I totally agree with the stability of the polymers, I'm more than a little
concerned about the suitability of DVD-R's as a result. Does anyone know of
"Archival Quality" DVD-R's? I'd be happy with something that's good
for 50
years at this point :^)
Zane