David Shaw wrote: >They're certainly advertised to (I've seen some pretty incredible >claims of 100 years or more), but in practice it doesn't really work >out that way. The manufacturing of the media, the burn quality, the >burner quality, the storage, etc, all have an impact on how long an >optical disc will last. Some tests show that you're lucky to get 10 >years.
Well, I'm able to do some tests now with old backup CD's. All my old backups are still perfectly readable, the oldest being from February 1998. I'll keep testing. With modern equipment, not burning discs with maximum speed seems to help. -- ir. J.C.A. Wevers // Physics and science fiction site: [EMAIL PROTECTED] // http://www.xs4all.nl/~johanw/index.html PGP/GPG public keys at http://www.xs4all.nl/~johanw/pgpkeys.html _______________________________________________ Gnupg-users mailing list Gnupg-users@gnupg.org http://lists.gnupg.org/mailman/listinfo/gnupg-users
