Digital BW, The Print

DVDs are much better for archival life.  Of course you should always
full-bit verify after burn.  For important things, you may want to create,
or use software that implements MD5 checksums; that is pretty good stuff.

The government (NIST) has a rather large program evaluating the whole topic;
go to http://www.itl.nist.gov/div895/ and click on digital data
preservation.  Have fun. :-)

Best regards,
John Moody

-----Original Message-----
From: DigitalBlackandWhiteThePrint@yahoogroups.com
[mailto:DigitalBlackandWhiteThePrint@yahoogroups.com]On Behalf Of wwodets
Sent: Thursday, March 16, 2006 6:23 PM
To: DigitalBlackandWhiteThePrint@yahoogroups.com
Subject: [Digital BW] Archiving images on DVD?

I am wondering if people have experience archiving image files on DVD
as opposed to CD.  Is the DVD less reliable data storage?  After
transferring many CDs to DVDs, PS is suddenly unable to read the DVDs
and I get a "Cyclic redundancy check" error.  And yes, I've still got
all the CDs.

Experience would be much appreciated.

Thanks,
Walt





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