[ale] Cd-r life

[Paul Cartwright]

On Sat October 2 2010, Michael Trausch wrote:
> Better safe than sorry. I reburn all critical backups after between 18 and
> 24 months. Some discs, the dye will begin to disintegrate, or at least used
> to. I don't trust the things for more than 24 months, period.

well, as far as backups go, most things get re-backed up on a regular basis 
anyways, and anything over 2 years old is.. mostly old anyway:) and I've 
switched to backing up on DVDs, since you can get 6 times the data on them..

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