On Thursday, April 8, 2021 at 4:15:50 PM UTC-10, Dave Smith wrote:
> On 2021-04-08 8:04 p.m., wrote:
> > On Thursday, April 8, 2021 at 6:21:31 PM UTC-5, Alex wrote:
> >>
> >> CD's don't last forever either. You should copy them and also find
> >> another place to store them - like your hard drive or a cloud backup.
> >>
> >> https://blog.storagecraft.com/data-storage-lifespan/
> >>
> > The silver CD/DVD's that are rated archival supposedly have a lifespan of
> > 200-300 years. Who's hanging around that long to give us a report I haven't
> > a clue.
> >
> Will there still be CD/DVD players to read those discs in a couple
> hundred years. My first computer used single sided single denisty 5.25"
> floppies. Then there was the 3.5" 1.44 Meg floppies. My new lap top did
> not come with a CD or DVD drive and when I bought the desktop I had to
> look for one with a the CD/DVD drive.
>
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There's not much use for optical drives in a world of solid state storage. In a few years there won't be any mechanical drives around. We don't have any in this house. In a world of skinny notebook computers and smart phones, there won't be any ports to plug in a mechanical/optical drive.