CD-R archiving
There’s a discussion over at the Fred Miranda forums on archival CD-Rs. I’m up to about 600MB of pictures from my Sony, and I should probably put a copy someplace safe. It’s not a professional portfolio by any means, but it’d be nice to be able to go back to these a few years from now after, say, a hard drive crash, and find that I can still read the CD.
The Fred Miranda forum discussion was triggered by the Register article on a Dutch survey of no-name CD-Rs. The discussion also pointed to an older article in CD Media World comparing name-brand CD-Rs. There’s also this more extensive Slashdot discussion. In any case, the thing to do is to find made-in-Japan gold CD-Rs. I’ll take a look in Circuit City today.