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[Stephen Adler]

Anyone have any experience with blue ray writeable disks for long term
storage? Especially in a Linux environment?

Thanks Guys.

Steve.

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[Dan Ritter-2]

On Fri, Oct 16, 2009 at 04:01:23PM -0400, Stephen Adler wrote:
> Anyone have any experience with blue ray writeable disks for long term
> storage? Especially in a Linux environment?

If you think long-term means 5 years or more, nobody has such
experience.

The discs in their current form have only been around since
2005.

-dsr-

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[Richard Pieri]

On Oct 16, 2009, at 4:01 PM, Stephen Adler wrote:

> Anyone have any experience with blue ray writeable disks for long term
> storage? Especially in a Linux environment?

Difficult to say since the media format hasn't been around for long.  
Accelerated aging tests of BD-RE say that it's good for 50 years.

The thing to be wary of is anything that uses organic dye layers for  
recording, such as CD-R and BD-RE LTH.  Organic dye media will rot  
(literally decompose) if air and moisture get under the polycarbonate  
sealing layer.  That includes scratches as well as the more obvious de-
lamination.  If a CD-R lasts more than 5 years then count it  
fortunate, and I don't see BD-RE LTH as being any better since it's  
the same construction.

--Rich P.

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