Tuesday, January 10, 2006
Note: Some news links may expire one week after posting.Your Burned CDs May Die Within 5 Years
This is a very disturbing relevation by a storage expert at IBM. He says that many CDs that you burn yourself (with data, music or pictures of your family, for example) may only last five years, and that is if you use the highest quality discs. Cheap discs may only last two years. Huh? What are we to do? He says to use magnetic tape. Huh? Iomega here we come? For more consumer news, visit Consumer World.
