in my best sean connery pretending to be irish voice "so endeth the sermon"
exactly how it should be - but do you have a disc logging system..?
cheers
paul b
sheffield / uk / etc
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From: "paulhaneberg" <phaneber@...>
To: <motm@yahoogroups.com>
Sent: Thursday, January 13, 2005 8:51 PM
Subject: [motm] Re: CD Shelf Life etc.
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> I consider CDRs to be the most reliable medium for long term
> storage. I have had a number of hard drive crashes and I have seen
> badly shedding tape. I have even seen vinyl LPs (Yes, I'm that old)
> with mold growing on the surface. I have never had a CDR or CD
> failure. I may eventually develop the same level of trust for DVDs
> and DVDRs but not just yet.
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> As many of you probably know I run a commercial recording studio
> based around ProTools. After every session I backup every new track
> and the master files to CDR and insist that my client take it home
> and keep it. (I do charge them for this service.) I also copy
> everything to a second, slower harddrive I keep for the purpose of
> running backups. So the data exists in three places. After clients
> have finished their projects I make a CDR copy of everything for
> safekeeping in the studio, in addition to the CDR copy the client
> should be keeping. After verifying that the data on the CDR is
> intact I then erase my ProTools hard drive and my running backup
> harddrive. So all active projects exist in three places and all non-
> active projects in two places. I keep the CDRs stored in jewel
> boxes in a climate controlled storage area of the studio which is
> usually dark and has no windows. I have several thousand.
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> I have seen too many drive failures to keep everything archived on
> hard drives. If you drop a CDR it is likely to still be readable.
> CDRs are immune to magnetic fields. It may be possible to damage
> them with UV but if you keep them out of the sun and bright lights
> there should be no problem.
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> I use a combination of cheap spindle mounted blanks (but major name
> branded) and expensive gold discs (usually Apogee or Quantegy)
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