TechARP found a failure rate near 10% for CD-Rs recorded 7 to 9 years ago, after storage in ideal conditions. On some, one or more individual files could not be recovered; others were not reliably readable on two separate drives.
http://www.techarp.com/showarticle.aspx ... 641&pgno=0
Have you checked your CD-R's lately?
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Re: Have you checked your CD-R's lately?
Good thing I saved all the tapes!
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Re: Have you checked your CD-R's lately?
Good reason to look into a Drobo and Amazon S3 for critical backup.
I have never had much trust in CD-Rs after I discovered that a scuff to some disks can cause all the media holding the data to flake off the polycarbonate disk. I found many of the generic disks from OfficeMax, Office Depot, and Staple had this problem.
I have never had much trust in CD-Rs after I discovered that a scuff to some disks can cause all the media holding the data to flake off the polycarbonate disk. I found many of the generic disks from OfficeMax, Office Depot, and Staple had this problem.
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