> On Jul 24, 2018, at 10:55 AM, Grant Taylor via cctalk <cctalk@classiccmp.org>
> wrote:
>
>> On 7/21/18 9:14 AM, Carlo Pisani via cctalk wrote:
>> what is your experience?
> I personally have had reasonable success with CD-Rs.
>
> I used Verbatim Blue CD-Rs for general storage back when I had a single 6.4
> GB drive in '98. I have recently read the contents of all the surviving
> disks with no problems that weren't resolved by a damp washcloth gently
> wiping the underside of the disk.
>
> I do seem to recall I had one disk that failed within a few months from what
> seemed to be fungus or rot. I never knew. I got rid of it quickly.
>
> All the other disks that I burned at 1x have lasted the better part of 20
> years.
>
> Honestly, I have more concern about functional CD-ROM drives more so than I
> do the media. More and more machines I'm around don't actually have a drive
> capable of reading CD-ROMs.
>
> I was also exposed to some people using the El-Cheapo light (faint) green
> CD-Rs and they would end up having problems reliably reading from them a week
> or two later. I think they usually burned them as fast as their drive would
> allow. To me, old AOL floppy disks were more reliable than the light green
> CD-Rs burned at high speed.
>
> I would only tolerate light green burned at 1x if I needed to move bulk data
> between machines and networking was not an option. Once the data was there,
> I considered the CD-R to be dead and frequently physically destroyed it.
>
>
>
> --
> Grant. . . .
> unix || die
>
For me, the Verbatim DataLifePlus has always been the disks that I trust.
Though at this point I should review what is on them and move the data to
online archives if I care about it. Realistically a lot is old backups. So
far I’ve never had a problem with them, except bad burns on a flaky drive or
system.
I have used cheap blanks for Linux installs, or to give someone copies of my
photos.
Zane
