Infant mortality and longevity of DVD media?

Barry Watzman <Watzman at neo.rr.com> wrote: "I use dual layer because I need to for some of my work, but I don't like it. I have never had a problem, but I know how it works and I don't trust it. I consider it to be a miracle that it works at all." I feel the same way about those CPU-thingys. I mean, how can they possibly count so fast and not make a mistake? ;) Seriously, if you look into the standards and see just how much of a laser-buned disk is used up for error control, it makes the HDD space used for formatting look downright frugal. As much faith in them as I have though, I've started looking for other archive media for my personal files. I've now come across several disks out of maybe 75 that have large numbers of unreadable image files (photos) that were readable less than five years ago. --------------------------------- Need a vacation? Get great deals to amazing places on Yahoo! Travel.