Burning for the Long Haul

[austini]

Hi Gang,

I found this forum about a week ago knowing nothing about how to backup a DVD. The education I received from searching the forum and reading various FAQs/guides etc here was unbelievably helpful and had me up and running in no time. So a big thanks to everyone.

Anyhow I found this news article today which may possibly be of interest:

http://www.smh.com.au/news/cameras--videos/burning-for-the-long-haul/2006/06/14/1149964545127.html

Cheers - Gordon

[soup]

Interesting read but my good discs cost me fifty cents each, those discs cost $3.50. So going by the article if I pull out my original every five years & burn a new backup. $3.50 divided by fifty cents = 7, so I should be good for 35 years or 7 backups for 5 years for the price of one gold disc.

[a2j3]

Hello austini

Welcome 2 the forum. Soup well said. lol

[Chewy]

http://www.smh.com.au/news/cameras--videos/burning-for-the-long-haul/2006/06/14/1149964545127.html

Herr Kurt Gerecke, IBM expert on data storage

got picked to the bone in a technical discussion by the real experts

[codajohn]

http://www.smh.com.au/news/cameras--...964545127.html



got picked to the bone in a technical discussion by the real experts

Can you send a link to that article?

[Chewy]

It wasn't an article, just a good thrashing of a self proclaimed expert in a very long thread in a forum.
Score cdfreaks 500 ibm 0

accelerated aging tests are being done by reputable experts and we should have a lot more to go on in the next year or so

[photo_angel2004]

holy moly those are some pricey dvd's and cd's i will stick with what I have.

[codajohn]

Thanks Chewy!!!!!

[soup]

Who do cdfreaks meet in the next round?

[Chewy]

Just waiting for some greenhorn to write another article