Shelf-life of storage medias

[gizz72]

Greetings,

I've looked in my CDRom back-ups the other day and I just found 4 CDRW that looked like crud! I mean, If you've seen wood eaten away by termites through a looking class.. that's what it looks like. Crud!!! :pissed:
Luckly, I still got the data to my hard drive temporarily and Re-Written them to a new(I believe sturdier looking) CDR's. Most of those CDRW's had(on the label side) silver surface, at least I got them cheap($0.05 a piece). The replacements were a wee bit expensive($0.50 per piece).

Are there any better/alternative storage media availble, which at least longer, say 10 years or more?(those CDRW's least only 3 months before I notice its decay(?!?), or do I need to buy much more expensive CDR/W's or DVD Discs(Expensive ATM)?

IMO, I would never count on floppies. Tapebackups are reasonalbe but unavailable on the Amiga. ZIP drives are Seldom avaible, but has considerable storage capacity, but I question their Shelf life?

Any thoughts in this? Thanks all.. :-D

regards,

Gizz

[gizz72]

Greetigns Odin,

Yes I believe they were. I went back to the place I bought them, they told it was faulty but they don't want to replace them cause it's really cheap. at $20 you have a box load of them, why bother. I'm lucky to save the contents in time. Besides, they keep on changing brands all the time. The same brand of the decaying CDRW were no longer sold there.

Regards

Gizz