January 28, 2006

Burned CDs May Not Last?

Scary article at ComputerWorld that has me wanting to go and finally print off my thousands of digital pictures on hard-copy....

STORAGE EXPERT WARNS
OF SHORT LIFE SPAN FOR
BURNED CDS

IBM experts are urging consumers -- and companies -- to consider magnetic tape storage devices if they want to preserve their digital content long term.

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1 comment:

  1. Yikes! Yeah, me too! I have so many pics that I've simply been saving to cd's to save $ for now...bummer! I pray we get some extra $ soon so that I can print out our pics while they're still good! thanks for the tip.

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