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

[Lee Licata]

Dear List,

This may have been covered before, but I missed it, So, please  
forgive me...

This discussion begs the obvious question, at least for me:

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?

Lee
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Date: Thu, 4 May 2006 01:26:09 -0500
From: Eugene <list-themacintoshguy at fsck.net>
Subject: Re: [X4U] CD : Digital Audio cd same as CD for data?
...

Music CD-R media is the same as normal CD-R media, except that the  
former has special bits that allow it to be used by home stereo CD  
burning equipment to burn audio CDs.  Normal CD-R media is rejected  
by home stereo CD burning equipment to burn audio CDs.  The burned CD- 
R media, once burned, will play on any system without restriction.  ...

If you burning music to CD-R media on your computer (and not on those  
cheesy home stereo CD burning equipment), use standard CD-R media  
like you always have.  Anyone who tells you that music CD-R media is  
better than normal CD-R media is an idiot.


-- 
Eugene