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Death of CD's - used as backups (not vulnerable to ESDs) | 170 comments | Create New Account
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Speaking of CD
Authored by: kawabago on Thursday, December 06 2012 @ 10:36 PM EST
John Travolta was on Katie Couric show with Olivia Newton
John pushing a Christmas Album. I guess he's trying to
redefine himself after his CD (cross dressing) discomfort.
You can't make this stuff up!

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Death of CD's
Authored by: rcsteiner on Friday, December 07 2012 @ 03:28 AM EST
I have dozens of data CDs that I burned a long time ago ... maybe 10-15 years?
... and I don't think I've run into more than one with any errors. It may well
depend on the quality of the discs used.

---
-Rich Steiner >>>---> Mableton, GA USA
The Theorem Theorem: If If, Then Then.

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Death of CD's - Harddisks the new floppy?
Authored by: Anonymous on Friday, December 07 2012 @ 05:25 AM EST
I am in the process of moving all my burned CD's/dvd's to harddisks. They are
far easier to search, backup and replace, and tae up far less space.
And with a price of €0,042 per GB even cheaper then DVD's.

With-swappable hardware you could even use them like floppies, or hang them in a
NAS and create your own cloud.

MBB

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better CD / DVD
Authored by: Anonymous on Friday, December 07 2012 @ 09:19 AM EST
There are (well the manufacturer claims) archival discs that last 100 years.

I am not sure but it would not surprise me if strong EMI currents / sparcs from
lightning or MIL. destructive devices could kill a harddrive but the optical
disc would survive.
(but then again in the accompanying havoc the owner maybe not, so ...)

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  • Century? - Authored by: Anonymous on Friday, December 07 2012 @ 09:45 AM EST
  • Century? - Authored by: squib on Friday, December 07 2012 @ 01:34 PM EST
Death of CD's
Authored by: Anonymous on Friday, December 07 2012 @ 10:01 AM EST
The biggest problem I see with long term storage is having
working hardware necessary to access the storage media.
How many people out there have working 5 1/4" or 8" floppy
drives? How many have any kind of floppy drive at all? If
people think that CD's are a good backup plan, then they
better make sure they will always have a working CD reader.

Long term storage must be constantly transfered to new
media types before the current hardware fails or becomes
obsolete. The media and hardware must go hand-in-hand.

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On a related note -
Authored by: Imaginos1892 on Friday, December 07 2012 @ 12:13 PM EST
I was at Fry's a couple of weeks ago and found a huge bin of CDs
for $5.00 each. Good ones, too - Springsteen, Deep Purple, Rush,
Eurythmics, Bon Jovi, Ted Nugent, Scorpions, etc. I checked, and
all of 'em were from Sony, BMI and other Sony-group labels.

I think Sony is getting out of the CD business.

Once you buy a CD you can do anything you want with it - zip it
into your computer, copy it to iPods, phones, notebooks, home
servers, DVRs - and never have to pay another cent. If something
happens to all of your digital copies, you can do it all over again
and STILL not pay another cent. Sony and the rest of the mafIAA
don't like that. They're pushing for another version of music rental.
They won't be happy until you have to pay them every time you
hear something they published, and they can take it back any
time they suspect you of "abuse" - like Amazon and the Kindle.

They're after permanent control of everything you hear and see.
That's the real reason for MPEG-LA - to exclude independent
content creators from the market by raising the entry barrier.
That's why every Sony video camera comes with an EULA that
forbids any commercial use. That's why we should all be using
free codecs like Vorbis and VP8. (WHY won't the HandBrake
developers support VP8?)

30 years ago it cost millions to build a music studio, billions
to build a movie studio. Today, you can get a computer, video
camera, microphones and software to build your own A/V studio
for under $3,000, with editing and processing capabilities the big
studios could only dream of 30 years ago. You can distribute
your product over the internet for almost nothing. The business
model is changing, and they refuse to change with it.
They want the Gummint to bring back The Good Old Days.
------------------------
There has grown up in the minds of certain groups in this country
the notion that because a man or corporation has made a profit
out of the public for a number of years, the government and the
courts are charged with the duty of guaranteeing such profit in the
future, even in the face of changing circumstances and contrary
to public interest. This strange doctrine is not supported by statute
or common law. Neither individuals nor corporations have any
right to come into court and demand that the clock of history be
stopped, or turned back, for their private benefit.
-- Robert A. Heinlein, "Life-Line", 1939

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Death of CD's - used as backups (not vulnerable to ESDs)
Authored by: Anonymous on Friday, December 07 2012 @ 01:11 PM EST
Death of CD's - used as backups (not vulnerable to ESDs)

Lightning and magnetic storage, can create doubt and questions about "what
if"?

CDs - burned, are not affected by ESDs (lighting or other problems that could
affect magnetic media).

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