Re: DVD drive lifespan?

[Daniel James <wastebasket@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

In article news:<3r6n749e1ev5joe66op8oc0r3l7djomiku@xxxxxxx>, Jim 
wrote:
> I recently bought 20 Kodak Gold archival DVD-Rs. They're guaranteed
> to retain their data for 100 years.

How does that work? Will Kodak magically reconstruct your data for you 
if/when the DVDs become unreadable in 30 years time?

It's certainly worth paying a little over the odds for good quality 
media when you have data you want to keep for a long time, but please 
don't imagine that that guarantee is actually meaningful. At best it 
means that Kodak will refund the cost of the media if they fail.

Cheers,
 Daniel.