[Ti] OT Durability of DVDs

[Tom R. no spam]

Archaeologists, who tend to think in terms of millenia rather
than years or decades, and are used to reading eg millenia-old
writing on stone or fired clay media, have this issue as a
live topic, as do others interested in archiving.  ;-0  Note,
not only the storage media, but the software needed to read the
content on the media, are issues.

On Wed, 10 Sep 2003, Tarik wrote:
 . . .
> fields ) but DVDs are in no way "permanent". It is all relative. I
> would wager that if you stored your data on DVDs and then made new
> copies every 5 years and kept 3 generations you'd probably be fine
> though.