Article on data rot on CD's

chris cb at mythtech.net
Thu Aug 5 10:04:15 CDT 2004


>Some of the CD longevity articles talk about this...  those safes
>are rated to preserve paper.  The char or combustion temperature for
>paper is far higher than the highest temperature that a CD-R 
>will survive.

True, I hadn't thought about that angle of it. I suppose a CD or disk 
will warp enough to ruin it long before paper starts to show signs of 
heat damage.

Its still going to be better then keeping important media in a cardboard 
box.

-chris
<http://www.mythtech.net>




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