CD-R longevity

In reply to Gavin Stairs's question about CD-R longevity: The US
National Institute of Standards and Technologies has recently
completed a guide to the care and handling of CD and DVD media:

    <URL:http://www.itl.nist.gov/div895/carefordisc/>

There are no specific product recommendations, but they do give
clear guidelines about disc types (gold CD-R, DVD-R or DVD+R) and
storage conditions (upright, cool, dark, low humidity). There's a
handy one page summary on the web:

    <URL:http://www.itl.nist.gov/div895/carefordisc/disccare.html>

John Cupitt


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