Infant mortality and longevity of DVD media? - test-drb@ccmp.vtda.org

6 Oct 2007

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Subject: Re: Infant mortality and longevity of DVD media?
   From: woodelf <bfranchuk at jetnet.ab.ca>
   Date: Sat, 06 Oct 2007 10:51:30 -0600
     To: General Discussion: On-Topic and Off-Topic Posts <cctalk at
classiccmp.org>

Barry Watzman wrote:
   Reading the media with a variety of
> drives other than the one used for burning is certainly not a bad idea, but
> for most users is unacceptably time consuming.   
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 Software mortality worries me. Who knows what bugs the
next version of
your driver has. Ben. 
One solution is a few older systems "frozen in time" and not allowed 
to auto update (if M$).  Even if Linux frozen in time is a good idea
for backups and archives.  This ahs proven successful for me and 
also give me working systems that are not prone to yet a new set 
of different bugs or lost capability.


Allison