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Re: [ARSCLIST] Minidisc Life
At 09:50 AM 5/8/2003 +0000, Leslie Winter wrote:
Hi,
After an arduous search, I have yet to find any substantial information on
the reliability and "longevity" of the minidisc as an archival medium. Sony
claims you can drive a truck over one of these. That's fine but how does it
score on a shelf for 50 years?
I could find neither documentation nor estimate. Note that the MD has two
terms: decay of information on the MO medium and failure of the parts which
must move for retrieval.
Note that it's not a question likely to come up often. Without (lossy)
compression, storage capacity is low and for that and other reasons MD is
usually used for transient data, then reused.
Mike
mrichter@xxxxxxx
http://www.mrichter.com/