Here is a quick article on choosing media to preserve data on. I agree with the article on the +R vs -R format for DVDs, and that gold discs, while supposedly being better, are probably not that good of a buy considering the other disc types are cheaper. However, I'm not quite sure where he's coming from with his defense of Taio Yuden media. Of course, there are some drawbacks to DVD as archival, mainly that you can't store much on them and their read/write speed is rather slow. This and the discs scratch easily.<br>
<br><a href="http://adterrasperaspera.com/blog/2006/10/30/how-to-choose-cddvd-archival-media">http://adterrasperaspera.com/blog/2006/10/30/how-to-choose-cddvd-archival-media</a><br clear="all"><br>What are you using for archival? I've been sticking to ye olde standard Sony DVD+R, but that's because they go on sale regularly. I don't know if they're any good, but I suspected they were better than most other brands. I've been sticking to Seagate for hard drives after having them recommended to me by a data recovery company.<br>
<br>-Devin<br><br>-- <br>The sleep of Reason produces monsters.<br><br>"Until next time..."<br>Captain Commando<br>