[Coco] CF and SD life expectancy

[Jay Coleman]

  On 7/24/2011 8:34 PM, Mark McDougall wrote:
> On 25/07/2011 11:13 AM, Roger Taylor wrote:
>
>> It's the "could" part that I'd like to see demonstrated. Not that I 
>> don't
>> believe a memory card has a life span like all the other types of 
>> media, but
>> I think some people worry far too much over this issue.
>
> That's just it though - people will worry more about the 'could' if it 
> pertains to their entire collection, rather than 4 games... regardless 
> of the realities.
>
>> I'm more worried about why my DVDs and CDs just quit working one day 
>> when
>> there has been no abuse, no warping, no mishandling, no scratching of 
>> any
>> sort, and why a spindle of brand new expensive dual-layer DVDs bought at
>> Wal-Mart almost always contains 2 glitch discs.
>
> I have CDs burned less than 10 years ago that I can't read. I have 
> DVDs burned less than 5 years ago that I can't read. I have a spindle 
> of DVDs that I bought about 2 years ago that mostly won't burn at all.
>
> I'd *never* trust any archival function to optical media atm. I'm 
> really hanging on some sort of 100% reliable, permanent archival 
> medium, because even backing up to two HDD still makes me nervous! :(
Then you are stuck with tape.  Expensive (at least for the drives), 
slow, but very reliable tape.

Jay