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Putting on my other hat ... I have some bad news, Richard, about those lovely gold Mitsuis ... they don't last. An unpublished report that came out of NARA (unpublished because it was so controversial!), found that the gold CDs all of us had been touting for years suffer the same bit-rot as everything else and the longevity is nowhere near what has been claimed in the past. The lifespans are closer to 10-15 years IF EVERYTHING IS PERFECT STORAGEWISE... So, what to do? For one thing, you could start burning an checksum file with each CD master you create. Check that file once per year and at the first time it hiccups, duplicate that master to another gold CD. Basically, we are talking about "forward migration" of your digital data on a regular basis to avoid totally losing the content. The other option is using RAIDs to store the files on hard drives, again making sure to monitor your checksum files for any signs of degradation or change. It ain't rocket science; it's archival science and yeah, I happen to also be a trained archivist, when I'm not looping. Best, Dennis On Wed, Oct 14, 2009 at 5:28 PM, richard sales <richard@glasswing.com> wrote: > Always master to gold Mitsui CDRs: > http://www.mediasupply.com/cd-r-media-mam-a.html > The best! Plus, they last 100-300 years... handy if you happen to be > immortal. OR VERY young. > Copy to duplicator HD from gold CD. -- http://myspace.com/usrsbin http://audiozoloft.com http://usrslashsbin.angrek.com/