#83 – Question/Answer: Media Lifespan (CD/DVD)

Posted on February 23rd, 2010 by admin in cd media | 25 Comments »

Q. How long is media like CDs/DVDs that you burn going to last? (CD-R, CD-RW, DVD-R, etc…)

A. Well, it really depends on the environment you live in or store the data in. Watch the video to find out more… http://www.Support3GM.com

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25 Responses

  1. koskioo Says:

    haha, I just found …
    haha, I just found 17 cd-r:s that I had burned about 6 years ago when I was 11… hilarious :D anyways, only one of them doesn’t play well (rather because of scratches than aging)

  2. gangstaredwan Says:

    hi i subscribed i …
    hi i subscribed i got DVD-R and it wont load on my computer it sais insert disk in computer but i did it wont read pls help i subscribed pls pls rply

  3. emuholic Says:

    that sounds shit.. …
    that sounds shit.. how many did you lose? must have you off

    i’ll never trust optical media for archival purposes again

  4. emuholic Says:

    they are pressed …
    they are pressed discs, they are a different beast

  5. emuholic Says:

    i noticed recently …
    i noticed recently a dvd-r (8x white faced printable traxdata ritek go5 brand burned at 4x speed) had a weird looking cloudy dispersment on the data side.. it is no longer readable

    i’m working on a migration plan to get the rest of my dvds onto hard disk drives.. optical media is bullshit .. noticed a few of my discs of 2 to 3 years old have lots more pie and pif in recent quality tests.

    anyone any idea on how long verbatim 16x silvers burned at 4x generally last?

  6. JephirDromulus Says:

    Good video
    Good video

  7. sgtnight6 Says:

    how to copy from a …
    how to copy from a cd/dvd using nero 7 please help.

  8. bszelda Says:

    Just get to …
    Just get to Velociraptor 300GB drives and config them in RAID1… :P

    When you use RAID1, data writes to both drives equally, thus you have a live backup of the drive you are running your OP on. So if one fails, then it will be as if nothing has gone wrong since the second drive will run as your main drive. :D

  9. youtubasoarus Says:

    I wonder if any of …
    I wonder if any of you have heard of a term called “disc rot” — something that I believe occurred mostly with older discs. May not be the case with newer ones. In any case, so long as the media lasts 10-20 years it should be perfectly fine. Because by then you’ll have to take all the crap off your discs and put them on new medias of the future.

  10. Dab1eo Says:

    Then backup all …
    Then backup all those backups and put half of them in a 3 foot thick steel box 1 mile under Antarctica wrapped in 300 feet of chains secured by 20 solid padlocks. Or is that going too far?

  11. niels2029 Says:

    back up the back of …
    back up the back of your back up.. then back up the real back up but dont forget to back up the one you back up and lastly dont forget to back it up again just to be sure

  12. drg303 Says:

    Most of my CD’s and …
    Most of my CD’s and DVD’s (TDK) burned about 5-6 years ago are now unreadable.

  13. shubhamranjan Says:

    external but only …
    external but only one hardrive esata

  14. shubhamranjan Says:

    lol
    lol

  15. C3ddie Says:

    wowsas.
    hes got a …

    wowsas.
    hes got a backup for his backup

  16. galileo021728 Says:

    use RAID 1
    use RAID 1

  17. djtheextremegamerpro Says:

    It Also Depends On …
    It Also Depends On How You Treat The Media To

  18. Vadigor Says:

    Assuming you man …
    Assuming you man the raid setup for backing up a harddrive, it’s RAID1 where multiple drives all store exactly the same data.

  19. shellBgt5oo Says:

    + is a dual layer …
    + is a dual layer disc while – is single layer

  20. samd891 Says:

    - have slower write …
    – have slower write and/or read speeds than a +. When you buy blank media just go for + its pretty much the same prive as -

  21. samd891 Says:

    I done that but I …
    I done that but I still cant give him a thumbs down. This has actually baffled me since I started using Youtube but I have never discussed it with anyone or found out how to do it

  22. operationturkey Says:

    Yes that would be …
    Yes that would be the best solution, although it is expensive. A raid 1 setup with a couple of 500GB disks would be good for backups.

  23. AMDphenom9600 Says:

    Do you ever Review …
    Do you ever Review the Latest Drivers?

  24. Lvaneede Says:

    true, I like …
    true, I like Rodneys idea of backing up the backup hard drive

  25. Lvaneede Says:

    I dont know, thats …
    I dont know, thats just what Rodney said he does.

    look up raid configurations on wikipedia or something, it might say on there.

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