[X4U] Consensus of the best (?) blank CD-R for archiving?

Nick Scalise nickscalise at cox.net
Thu May 4 21:06:09 PDT 2006


On May 4, 2006, at 10:36 PM, Lee Licata wrote:

> If one is interested in buying a burnable CD that has the highest  
> likelihood of preserving the contents burned the longest period of  
> time, which ones should I be looking for, or what "spec" should I  
> be seeing?

Medical Grade disks last the longest. Generally expected to last 300  
years. After medical grade disks, gold is the next best thing.

TDK, Verbatim, and others make Medical grade and gold CD-R's.

Here's one source:
<http://www.datamediastore.com/cdr.html>

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Nick Scalise
nickscalise at cox.net


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