On Thu, 8 Apr 2021 22:08:19 -0700 (PDT), dsi1 >
wrote:

>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.

I rely on my superior memory for data storage. I simply retrieve the
data by yelling out lots of ones and zeros.

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