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| From | Michael Coxe <michael@audities.net> |
| Subject | CD-Recordable discs unreadable in less than two years [O/T but short] |
| Date | Tue, 26 Aug 2003 23:50:32 -0700 |
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There's enough cdr users here that would be interested in this.
Guess I'll drag out my trusty Exabyte tape drive and archive em
all to 8mm. I'm sure this makes the record industry very happy ;>
- mc
URL: http://www.cdfreaks.com/news/7751
The Dutch PC-Active magazine has done an extensive CD-R quality
test. For the test the magazine has taken a look at the
readability of discs, thirty different CD-R brands, that were
recorded twenty months ago. The results were quite shocking as a
lot of the discs simply couldn't be read anymore:
Roughly translated from Dutch:
The tests showed that a number of CD-Rs had become completely
unreadable while others could only be read back partially. Data
that was recorded 20 months ago had become unreadable. These
included discs of well known and lesser known manufacturers.
It is presumed that CD-Rs are good for at least 10 years. Some
manufacturers even claim that their CD-Rs will last up to a
century. From our tests it's concluded however that there is a
lot of junk on the market. We came across CD-Rs that should
never have been released to the market. It's completely
unacceptable that CD-Rs become unusable in less than two
years.
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