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Say Goodbye To Your CD-Rs In Two Years?
From: Dave Farber <dave () farber net>
Date: Mon, 25 Aug 2003 05:42:02 -0400
Date: Sun, 24 Aug 2003 22:07:21 +0530 (IST) From: N Sashikumar <sashi () civil iisc ernet in> Subject: Say Goodbye To Your CD-Rs In Two Years? To: Dave Farber <dave () farber net> Prof Dave, Slashdot has a thread on this topic: http://slashdot.org/articles/03/08/24/1253248.shtml?tid=126&tid=137&tid=198 Actual news is reported in the following link 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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