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What is the best way of storing CDs/DVDs at home?
What is the best way and care of storing CDs and DVDs and optical media if I do not have air conditioning equipment and I do not have special rooms for humidity and temperature control? is the best option to maximize the life of Verbatim AZ-DVD and Verbatim MDISC DVD?
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- Handle with care.
- Put them in proper CD/DVD containers when not in use. Essentially the same lesson you were taught in kindergarten: don't play rough with your toys, put them up when done. It's that easy. |
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What is the best CD / DVD container? do they protect from excessive moisture and heat? it is very difficult to preserve optical media because they require humidity and temperature control, I have CDs, DVDs and MDisc DVD, some manufacturers say that good discs can last 100 years but I learned that it is marketing |
Then you're already doing everything you can.
We've covered cases and boxes on other threads of yours in past months/years. Re-read those. |
What media is more reliable and secure? USB Flash Drive or HDD or cloud computing or Blu-Ray Disc?
1) For the long life of the optical DVD media is it better low humidity and higher temperature 30 to 35ºC or lower temperature 32ºC and higher humidity? temperature or humidity? 2) DVD Case box black have any benefits to the long life of optical media DVD or MDisc? |
Lord Smurf, you should get a Nobel prize of some sort. Blue of course.
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gamemanico also deserves a prize for being here for over 5 years and asking variations of the same questions 453 times http://www.digitalfaq.com/forum/memb...memaniaco.html :mad4:
Edit: Oh and getting banned at least four times at videohelp.com under different names, gamemanico, gamemanico2, samus87, mediafiles87 and numerous sites as gamemanico. Oh, he's also known as rocknroll racing. Beware! |
DVD Case box black have any benefits to the long life of optical media DVD or MDisc?
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you did not respond if it is more harmful for long term storage of optical averages temperature or humidity |
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The question is bad.
Knives and guns. I throw machetes, shoot waterguns. Which is worse? I throw plastic butter knives, shoot AK47. Which is worse? Heat and humidity. No qualifiers, no answer. |
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1) If I keep same disc the optical media in place cold and humidity the durability is the same as storing the discs in a warm and dry place? 2) Are there any storage guidelines and tips if you do not have humidity and temperature control equipment? |
To restate lordsmurf's 12:31 from yesterday
How warm is warm? How cold is cold? How humid is humid? How dry is dry? Now much and often does the storage environment cycle between humid and dry, warm and cold? Every disk formulation will behave differently from other formulations. And only the manufacturer knows the behavior (and maybe some obscure test lab somewhere) for sure. Since you are apparently unwilling to believe and thus ignoring the information and advice provided in responses to over 450 posts here, NOTHING you are able and willing to do will make any significant difference in the expected useful life of your disks. |
Does indirect sunlight light in my cardboard box greatly affect the storage temperature? my cases with the disks are inside this cardboard box, I just look for the best form of storage if I do not have special rooms
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I am seriously confused by the number of questions you're asked going back several years about DVD media and storage conditions. If you're that worried about specifics, why don't you contact the manufacturers directly and ask them your questions?
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Erich: Some people have a need to carry on a dialog with cyber friends, real or hoped for, and to do this they need some shared interest about which to "talk," and asking takes the place of offering when there is little to offer. This "need" cannot be satisfied, and thus the dialog cannot be concluded even when the dead horse is beat beyond death and desiccation. While some might move on to a new and hopefully interesting topics to continue the exchange, that requires some imagination to find a new topic. (It seems that when the only tool in the shed is a hammer the discussion tends to remain focused on nails.)
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For the record: Picard, and while we're at it, truck not monkey (Transformers). :P |
@gamemaniaco: You have made (as of now) 459 posts - all questions, no help for others, no answers.
MAKE A DONATION!!! |
I'm beginning to wonder what's on these discs that needs to be preserved for 100 generations?
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It is a bit like Schrödinger's cat. As long as the disc is kept in storage and not accessed it will remain as new (or what ever state you prefer). But when you try to access the data on the disc it may be in another state. And in 30 years will it matter?
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At first I felt sorry for him [sic], but after he got banned again and again under his different names, I began to realize he's beyond help, at least until he accepts his behavior isn't normal or acceptable at many forums. Sadly, his behavior isn't that uncommon. I've been a regular another non-video forum for a couple of years and there are a handful of posters there that act the same way. *SIGH* |
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Education is a fundamental aspect of this site, and I've been a special lecturer many times in years past, so I'm used to questions. Including from students that just do not understand, even on the 2nd/3rd/4th go-around. Some concepts can be hard. And I will grant you that optical media concepts are really not all that easy. It's also human to be over-curious. For example, wanting to understand how electricity works, but without knowing how to operate a light switch. Getting ahead of yourself, and trying to understand something that you really don't have to understand (in order to carry out a task). But, at the same time, it can get annoying. So from time to time, a gentle thump on the nose is needed, swift kick, smack upside the head, knock some sense into the person. :laugh: Always remember to not derail threads too much. Any thump/kick/smack should come attached to answers. :wink2: Which brings me to this... Quote:
Also retain multiple backup copies, including 2x+ DVD, HDD, stone tablets, paper, etc. Preferably in multiple locations. Quote:
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2) In my storage conditions with variations of 30-36ºC 45-67% RH on days without rain you instructed me to recopy the files every 15 years years, is that correct? I do not know if those 15 years is from the burning of the disc or the partyir from the manufacture of the disc 3) I do not trust HDDs they look frail but optical media are slowing manufacturing and worry is future |
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25ºC 50% RH = 77 F. That's not to different from the hottest/humid it gets inside my home during summer.
There are studies out there for exact numbers, from decades past. Offhand, I don't know, cannot answer your question. My guestimate for 10 years is again unchanged for you, conservative minimum. HDD arenn't any more frail than optical. Not better, not worse, just different. |
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10 or 15 years? What is my case for making new copies? 30-35ºC 45-67% on days without rain and with high humidity and 29ºC estimate from the burning date or date of manufacture of the DVD? I have to find out the year of manufacture of my dvds? |
You're asking how long a piece of string is, before it's even being finished woven. There is no answer. There are guesses, which you've been given, but no definitive answers.
Seriously, 10 or 15 = yes. Pick one. I'm fine with either. This thread is no longer on-topic, so :lock: |
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