RE: CD Life

["Chesnay, Martin" <Martin -dot- Chesnay -at- banctec -dot- ca>]

>-----Original Message-----
>From: dan.gallagher
>Sent: Thursday, July 29, 2004 10:02 AM
>To: TECHWR-L
>Subject: CD Life
> <<Can anyone shed light on the longevity of CDs? I hear differing
opinions. Is 
>it safer to archive data on HD or CD? >>

Dan,

The National Institute of Standards and Technology published an interesting
study regarding CD longevity, care and handling. It's the NIST Special
Publication 500-252. You can find it here : http://tinyurl.com/2odky.
In it you will learn why you should always store CDs vertically, avoid
humidity, or why you should never write on a CD (much less use stickers). It
also explains why CD-R media is better than CD-RW for long term storage.

Quite an interesting read for anyone interested in long term data storage.

Hoping this (firstest :) post helps,

Martin Chesnay
Technical Writer

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