[geeks] Gold archival CDs?

Sheldon T. Hall shel at tandem.artell.net
Fri May 12 16:25:34 CDT 2006


 Quoth nate at portents.com....
[quoting someone] ... 
> 
> > REAL archival-quality optical media would be a big plus, even better
> > if there is such a thing for DVD-Rs. I have quite a bit of 
> > stuff that
> > might be worth some extra money to keep around, but isn't worth more
> > hard drives and headaches maintaining them, or the money for a tape
> > drive + tapes.
> 
> If you want something that will last more than 30 years, I 
> think the only
> optical media you can trust is magneto-optical, because it 
> doesn't involve
> organic dye in any way. [snip]

Hmmm.  Are there any MO drives larger than 120 MB or whatever those
3.5-inch-floppy-sized are?  

-Shel



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