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In Reply to: RE: Audio CD-RWs posted by geoffkait on April 29, 2022 at 06:29:06:
True. The number of Read/Write cycles is a different issue vs how long the media will last. I consider CD-R, CD-RW, DVD-RW, BD-R, etc. to all be disposable media and not suited for long term archival use.For archival purposes you don't want to worry if your media will be good five, ten, or 30 years from now. Many won't last 10 years. The higher quality "Archival Grade" media may last longer but will the optical mechanical devices to read them be around 30 years from now? That's another topic entirely.
Consumer media use photosensitive organic dye which deteriorates over time. This is different than disc rot on commercial media where the data is stamped onto a polycarbonate layer with reflective aluminum behind it. This includes CDs, LASER Disc, DVDs, and Blu-Ray discs.
In any case, when I was into CD's [a decade ago?] I would burn CD-RW and use those in my car knowing that they will be handled roughly and be exposed to heat and cold. When they went bad, I would just re-burn another from my original media. Those days are long gone as I have hi-res music on my iPhone or stream hi-res from a service.
If one wants to truly preserve and archive photos or videos to pass on to the kids and grand kids, its probably best to not use any of these old school removable media at all.
Interesting article linked below:
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Follow Ups
- RE: Audio CD-RWs - AbeCollins 04/29/2208:56:14 04/29/22 (4)
- Moral - always buy expensive gold discs whatever the format. Case solved! Nt - geoffkait 16:19:30 04/29/22 (3)
- Nah, I don't use "discs" at all for archival purposes. - AbeCollins 11:10:19 05/1/22 (1)
- Gold discs sound better. Nt - geoffkait 15:21:12 05/2/22 (0)
- agreed.~nT - Cleantimestream 17:29:26 04/29/22 (0)
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