Durability of CD-Rs

[Francisco Borges]

» On Fri, Apr 28, 2006 at 04:04PM +0100, Daniel Carrera wrote:

> Hello,
>
> Does anyone know how long a home-burnt CD will last?
>
> I'm thinking of backup media here, so we can assume that the CD is very
> rarely used. I've tried to google for an answer, but didn't find what I
> needed.

:-S

Short answer Dutch magazine research: "may be less than 2 years".

Google for "CD-R long term reliability"

Read this link:
http://www.cdfreaks.com/news/7751

Read this also:
http://www.willamette.edu/wits/idc/mmcamp/LongTermDataStorageOnCD.htm

And this, lot's of DOs and DON'Ts:
http://www.audioholics.com/techtips/specsformats/CDDVDlongevity.php


http://www.pcbuyersguide.com/hardware/storage/CD-R_reliability_reports.html
http://www.macintouch.com/cdrfailure.html

Perhaps this?? http://www.citebase.org/cgi-bin/citations?id=oai:arXiv.org:cs/0508130
-- 
Francisco