Re: [ILUG] tar + cdrecord...

From: Liam Bedford (lbedford at domain lbedford.org)
Date: Mon 03 Sep 2001 - 10:18:14 IST


On Mon, Sep 03, 2001 at 02:38:29PM +1000, Justin Mason came forth with:
>
> Shouldn't be too much of an issue with CDR's, as they're quite solid,
> but DATs or other mag-tape systems can have reliability problems.
>
CDR's are not known to be the world's most reliable system.. especially if
you don't use the Gold ones.. (and there's another dye now with a 100 year
life)

The normal blue/cyan ones only have a life of 20 years, and it's degraded by
UV etc...

L.

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