X-Message-Number: 22793 Date: Sat, 8 Nov 2003 07:13:19 -0700 Subject: CD lifetime From: (Tim Freeman) If you're archiving data on CD that's pertinent to life extension, you probably care how long the CD's last. This page says that gold-colored phthalocyanine CD-R's and dark-blue metallized AZO CD-R's are better than blue or blue-green or green cyanine CD-R's: http://www.informationweek.com/story/IWK20010719S0003 This page says glue-on labels are not good, and writing on the CD with a felt-tip pen is better. Keeping them dry and cool is probably more important than the dye, and put them in an envelope or jewel case instead of letting them roll around in a folder: http://www.informationweek.com/story/showArticle.jhtml?articleID=15800263 -- Tim Freeman GPG public key fingerprint ECDF 46F8 3B80 BB9E 575D 7180 76DF FE00 34B1 5C78 Computers don't like it when you anthropomorphize them. -- Chris Phoenix Rate This Message: http://www.cryonet.org/cgi-bin/rate.cgi?msg=22793