Re: DVD-RAM archival

["Charles Wilt" <charles.wilt@xxxxxxxxx>]

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/DVD-RAM

"Long life — without physical damage, data is retained for an
estimated 30 years minimum. Ideal for video evidence recording in CCTV
applications amongst many other uses."

You should be able to get specs from the media vendor (TDK, Verbatium,
ect) also.

Charles


On Thu, Dec 4, 2008 at 11:46 AM,  <ChadB@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> Wanted to get some ideas from the list here...
>
> For several of the latest models of machines (520/525), the writeable DVD
> drive has used DVD-RAM media.  We have always used the writeable DVD media
> as the media used to store/archive our purged business data.  As we get
> more and more formal and policy driven, our policy speaks of this data as
> being kept 'forever'.  We all know that digital media isn't necessarily
> forever...
>
> Has anyone else here approached this question/issue of long term archival
> of data on DVD?  I'm doing some web research on DVD-RAM longevity and
> finding alot of variability on quoted longevity and also variability of
> test results trying to measure longevity.
>
> Ours is a small scale archival set of 5-10 DVD-RAMs worth of data that
> grows pretty slowly... but i'm guessing that some here may have already
> dealt with such questions on a larger and more stringent scale...  I also
> have a PMR out to IBM to get any thoughts they may provide.
>
>
> (If you're not comfortable discussing on-list, let me know and another
> contact method would be fine also...)
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