Disky business
Put this in the category of "I-didn't-know-this". An IBM researcher says that normal home-burned CDs will only last for 2 years, 5 at the most for higher quality disks. Kurt Gerecke, from IBM Germany, recommends that important information be moved to mag tapes.
Yikes. Maybe the music industry can just wait it out. If this is true, I'm surprised that it's not more commonly discussed, considering all the small businesses who store all their financials on CD.
Posted on February 08, 2006
