MOTM

Scott Gibbons wrote:

> More food for thought: I have to keep multiple copies of my digital
> projects, because there's a rather limited life expectancy for a CDR, DVD,
> or hard drive.


Might I inquire where you get this information? I remember hearing something 
similiar in the late 80s that "CDs won't last longer than 10-15 years", but here 
it's over 20 years since I got my copy of Billy Joel's Nylon Curtain and it, 
along with 3 other CDs I got in 1983, still play and work flawlessly - even in 
my old Sony CDP-101 player I bought!

Also, I burned CDRs in 1996 for system backups I made when I migrated from one 
machine to another and I just plopped them in my system - lo and behold, they 
all still work. In fact, I can't remember a CDR with a successful burn that 
didn't work - of any era. What information do you base the above assertion on?

And you'll get no argument on the life expectancy of hard drives. ;-)

-->Neil