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List:       suse-kde
Subject:    Re: [opensuse-kde] stop empty floppy drive announcement
From:       C <smaug42 () opensuse ! org>
Date:       2013-11-13 7:25:14
Message-ID: CAOVv=gM4sTvxe=6+yMNdHyxUGiZ7byd=ekPzT_bUCsFhY0Li0Q () mail ! gmail ! com
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On Wed, Nov 13, 2013 at 8:04 AM, Felix Miata wrote:
> As long as people have floppies and CDs and DVDs they need something to
> access them. Combining DVDs, CDs and floppies, I have well over 3000, and I
> know people whose libraries are measured with 5 digits.

I gave up on floppy/CD/DVD RW as long term offline storage when I
discovered "bit rot".  I had around 600 CDs (several years ago) of
data stored (personal videos, photos, music, multimedia etc) all burnt
to CD and/or DVD.  It was all "stored properly" out of the sun, in
individual jewelbox cases etc. None of it survived more than about 5
years.  Most was unreadable within 3 years of the burn date.  A couple
are still valid after 10 or 11 years though... the rare few.

* http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bit_rot
* http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Disc_rot

Given that the well documented bit/disk rot is a real factor... I
wonder how many of your 3000 disks have failed... and the people who
have libraries measured with 5 digits? I hate to think of how much
data they think is stored safely is long gone.

C.
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