Thanks for that, Tom and Moose. I shall be looking for MAM-E
(Europe, apparently) in the shops around here.
Chris
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C M I Barker
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On 6 Feb 2006, at 04:06, Moose wrote:
> tOM Trottier wrote:
>
>> Summary: Light green dye (phthalocyanine) CDRs have longest life.
>>
>>
> Yup, and the longest lasting of those use a gold reflective surface.
> Phthalocyanine dye is covered by Mutsui patents and only a very few
> manufacturers are licenced to produce optical disks using it. The only
> No. American manufacturer is MAM, which claims "Accelerated aging
> tests
> show that MAM Gold can be used as a reliable storage media for more
> than
> 300 years." Of course, none of us are likely to know if they are right
> or not. :-) Not cheap compared to the mass market, but may be a
> bargain for long term storage at $1.35 @ in bulk. Even if they don't
> last 300 years, they should certainly last long enough to outlive
> CDs as
> storage devices and be happy to pass their contents on to the
> replacements.
>
> The same folks are making DVDs using the same dye and reflective
> surfaces, although I don't think results are in yet on DVD accelerated
> aging tests <http://store.mam-a-store.com/standard---archive-
> gold.html>.
> If they can make reliably long lived DVDs, I would much prefer to use
> them for my archival storage.
>
> Moose
>
>
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