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Posted by Roy L. Fuchs on 04/13/06 20:10
On Thu, 13 Apr 2006 18:58:54 GMT, "Tim V." <tsvemail-usenet@yahoo.com>
Gave us:
>Roy L. Fuchs <roylfuchs@urfargingicehole.org> wrote in
>news:v0jf325kr3vtvibdj0rgtb5sm2f15fnrbm@4ax.com:
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>> Say something else that is retarded.
>>
>> ALL consumer level, "burnable" storage mediums are degradable as the
>> plastic layer can "relax" in high heat and render tracks unreadable
>>
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>UV light is a killer for the dye, so not just high heat can kill the discs.
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>I'm also reading that the 100 year storage life (I don't know how they know
>that until 100 years passes. I don't trust projections made in a lab) is
>coming down now that data is coming in with "real world" experiences.
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>I think people tend to treat burnable media a little rougher than store
>bought discs, too.
As my collection of computers increases, so too does my collection of
hard drives. To me, that is still the best place to store most long
term archives. I do, however, have several hundred gigs of CD-Rs with
old 78 rpm era MP3s I have collected. I burned that as the archive as
back then, I didn't have as many hard drives, and they were much
smaller drives then as well.
Soon we will have terabyte drives. At that point, my PC will boot
from any one of the top twenty Linux distros, as well as a couple
flavors of Windows OS environments.
The world grows more interesting, and just like CRT is still king,
hard platter magnetic disk storage mediums (hard drives) are still
king in the world of data storage, and it gets cheaper all the time!
It also has the added benefit of having the fastest reads and
writes. The only things one must worry about is inertial shock damage,
and strong mag fields. A weak mag field like your speaker magnet
isn't enough to harm it. Perpendicular storage methodology is going
to usher in a whole slew of one inch drive integration. We will see
them in our cell phones sooner than you think.
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