[ale] Cd-r life

[Geoffrey Myers]

So the next question. Excuse my ignorance, but I assume DVDs suffer the safe lifespan as CD-Rs?

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Later, Geoffrey
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On Oct 2, 2010, at 11:48 AM, Paul Cartwright <ale at pcartwright.com> wrote:

> On Sat October 2 2010, Michael Trausch wrote:
>> Better safe than sorry. I reburn all critical backups after between 18 and
>> 24 months. Some discs, the dye will begin to disintegrate, or at least used
>> to. I don't trust the things for more than 24 months, period.
> 
> well, as far as backups go, most things get re-backed up on a regular basis 
> anyways, and anything over 2 years old is.. mostly old anyway:) and I've 
> switched to backing up on DVDs, since you can get 6 times the data on them..
> 
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