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I'm living in Dublin, Ireland and this is a collection of ramblings about my day-to-day activities in the exciting world of web development ;-) Technologies used and projects under development. Also links of interest, mostly completely work un-related....

Friday, January 27, 2006

Backing Stuff up, How long do burned CD-Rs and CD-RWs last?

How long do burned CD-Rs and CD-RWs last?

I always wondered about this, short answer is: one time writable media CD or DVD + or -R should last a long time (decades) but rewritable media + or - RW have VERY short lifetimes and should not be used for archiving anything important.

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