MOTM

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

----- Original Message ----- 
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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