Preservation of correspondence

[Jim Leonard]

Chuck Guzis wrote:
> For archiving our stuff and our customers' data, we use Mitsui/MAM-A 
> "gold on gold" CD-R media.  Mitsui claims that the storage life of 
> the dyes used is in excess of 300 years.  I can but surmise that it's 
> our best bet.  While I'd like to believe that DVD-R media has the 
> same permanence, my problems with DVD players successfully reading 
> movies and such makes me suspicious.  It could be that DVD is just 
> "pushing" the technology a bit.

You should read up on DVD technology.  DVD-ROM has 1.32x the 
Reed-Solomon error-correction of CD.
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