Lou,
You raise good points about the M-O structure of
MDs. I hope I was careful to address the player
issue in my original post. Your friend may be
correct, but I believe most life-time analysis
has been done on industrial M-Os not MDs. I'm
sure not trusting my stuff to MD. I consider it a
capture medium, not an archival medium.
There have been both manufacturer and independent
testing about the longevity of the Phthalocyanine
dye used in the MAM-A discs. It is claimed that this is a Mitsui patent.
I suspect that the writing drive is an issue for
both MDs and CDs. Jerry can chime in with more details here.
I'm using managed disc drives for much of my
current storage and I am a fan of managed storage
in the data domain. I am not a fan of dedicated
formats in general for archiving. I make an
exception for gold audio CD-Rs as they are
readable in computers as well as audio players.
Cheers,
Richard
At 06:11 PM 10/13/2005, you wrote:
>Richard, I can't speak to the future players,
>but a radio friend of mine thinks that MDs are
>MORE archival as they have magneto-optical
>recording and may last longer than the
>only-chemical CDs. He took the time and trouble
>to transfer 20 years of weekly programs to MD
>for the permanent archive on this theory.
>
>Do you think he might be wrong? Discounting the
>availability of players, for the sake of
>discussion. You are probably right about that
>the way things are going with the players though nothing is gospel any more.
>
>Thanks for your opinion!
>
>Lou Judson • Intuitive Audio
>415-883-2689
>
>On Oct 13, 2005, at 1:59 PM, Richard L. Hess wrote:
>
>>Digitally transfer them to two CD-Rs and store
>>the CD-Rs. Or better yet, if you have a managed
>>digital archive that can accept them, store them in that.
>>
>>I don't think many of us think that MDs are
>>archival. I wouldn't worry about an archival
>>box for a medium that probably isn't archival.
>>I don't think we can expect the long-term
>>availability of MD players as compared to CD players.
>>
>>Good luck!
>>
>>Richard
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