Infant mortality and longevity of DVD media?

[Allison]

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>Subject: Re: Infant mortality and longevity of DVD media?
>   From: woodelf <bfranchuk at jetnet.ab.ca>
>   Date: Sat, 06 Oct 2007 10:51:30 -0600
>     To: General Discussion: On-Topic and Off-Topic Posts <cctalk at classiccmp.org>
>
>Barry Watzman wrote:
>   Reading the media with a variety of
>> drives other than the one used for burning is certainly not a bad idea, but
>> for most users is unacceptably time consuming.  

>Software mortality worries me. Who knows what bugs the next version of
>your driver has. Ben.

One solution is a few older systems "frozen in time" and not allowed 
to auto update (if M$).  Even if Linux frozen in time is a good idea
for backups and archives.  This ahs proven successful for me and 
also give me working systems that are not prone to yet a new set 
of different bugs or lost capability.


Allison