Should you store treasured data on disks?

[Ari Torhamo]

la, 2010-06-26 kello 08:17 +0100, Chris Rees kirjoitti:
> Hardly news.

Really? I agree that large part of the users probably already know that
optical disks typically are not to be trusted to preserve data for very
long. On the other hand, if optical disks that are specifically designed
for long time archiving and advertised to last at least a century or two
degrade in much shorter time, that's probably news even to many IT
professionals.

Unfortunately the BBC article doesn't tell which brands and disks were
tested and which were not, and if any of the tested ones were even
resonably good.

Ari Torhamo