archival quality cd's - good for 300 years

[Matt. K]

Check out the site and make up your own minds.

http://www.delkin.com/delkin_products_a ... _gold.html

[Glen]

I searched their site but couldn't find one picture or reference to a CD from 1705 AD. Can they be sure they last 300 years?


Seems like a good idea for long term storage.

[sirhc55]

Seeing as I have anything from 1 week to forty years left I really don’t give a toss about a CD that will last 300 years

[Nnnnsic]

We'll be lucky to have anything that'll read CD's in 25 years.

[Greg B]

I'm with Chris

[Onyx]

Just before I left for HK, I was doing a more thorough than usual data backup, and discovered an early batch of TDK CD-Rs unreadable (dating back to at least 8 years). They were green reflective (which translates into ??? as recording layer); while an older batch of Mitsui Gold's (gold reflective layer) had remained fine. So IMO it's not all about marketting gimmicks and bogus claims - if those bogus claims have a shred of validity I'd certainly be interested in longer archival life from optical media.

[birddog114]

Nothing in this world about the media of DVD or CD can be guaranteed last for such 300 years, it's just a marketting gimmicks.

[Nnnnsic]

Mostly early CDs were not good... from what I remember, the bright green and blue azos were the worst to deal with.

With Kodak's experimentation into gold, silver, and then gold & silver azos, they found a winner, and most azos started to become a variant of green but with either silver or gold or both combined in the process... I think that's what the Verbatims are, anyway.

From what I recall, the azo that the recorder writes on for the CD / DVD is organic, or rather has some organic components in it, so things like DVD rot or CDs dying if not kept well is always a possibility no matter what the brand or CD type.