Careful what you store on a CR-r

[Area51_FLG]

Intersting article

http://theregister.co.uk/content/54/32593.html

[Anasazi]

Great.
We've been lied to for years.

[Moddy]

Great.
We've been lied to for years.

No shit man - I blame it on shoddy overseas child labor.

[Silly]

Oh man. This makes me cry. Think of all the porn Deadlamb is going to loose. :D

[Anasazi]

Great.
We've been lied to for years.

No shit man - I blame it on shoddy overseas child labor.

Holy shit! LOL lol



Oh man. This makes me cry. Think of all the porn Deadlamb is going to loose.



It might push him over the edge into suicide. :D

[GotNoRice]

Dammit, I’ve got 400 gigs of movies and TV shows that I was someday hoping to unload onto CD-R’s or DVD-R’s… but now I’m paranoid.

Is there such thing as a reliable media? Can’t say I necessarly feel safe leaving these things on my raid-0 drives either.

[Anasazi]

Is there such thing as a reliable media? Can’t say I necessarly feel safe leaving these things on my raid-0 drives either.

I'd have to go with 8 tracks.
Those things have withstood the test of time. Now if only they could read data.

[Bullfrog]

I am waiting for the RIAA to have a big banner add on their homepage praising this article! And the plot thickens.... :nut:

[Silly]

Is there such thing as a reliable media? Can’t say I necessarly feel safe leaving these things on my raid-0 drives either.

I'd have to go with 8 tracks.
Those things have withstood the test of time. Now if only they could read data.

I could find you a cassette drive from an old apple ][ if you'd like. Of course, you'd die of old age before it completed a gig of data :D

[DeadLamb]

Dammit, I’ve got 400 gigs of movies and TV shows that I was someday hoping to unload onto CD-R’s or DVD-R’s…

and I'm sure well over half of it is just pure junk anyways or if it is good, will be out on DVD soon anyways just to buy, looking better then whatever versions you have now..

right from the main page "white label CD-Rs, and doesn't mention any premium brands that performed well"

so really, I'm not too worried about it.. the bulk of stuff stored on cd-r etc is warez or just as I said, junk.. Newer stuff comes out, more films more pics more everything.. 100% worst case one might have, at best a handful of stuff they really want to make sure they have a back up of.. Make 2 copies and then copy them again in a few years..

and STOP saving .3 per a disk and buying junk media.. I just built up this 3.0 system here and had to looking for some appz disk I had.. Even good old disk #1 worked fine and I think those are 4+ years old.. Just better media....

I mean it really shocking that nothing really last forever? Nope :)

[termdec]

Oh no! The CD I backed up Office 97 onto might be nearly unreadable in a few years. I :moneyshot: :moneyshot: :moneyshot: :moneyshot: