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Any idea where they get the number 300 years? In the archival world, we're leery of such blatant marketing claims, especially since CD technology is only a few
by ascuttlefish 16y ago
Any idea where they get the number 300 years? In the archival world, we're leery of such blatant marketing claims, especially since CD technology is only a few decades old.
- ghshephard 16y agoNot as much a marketing claim as it is a MTBF analysis procedure. They run their media through advanced heat/cold/light cycles to approximate how long the media will last. There a number of vendors/technology providers out there that are working on this technology - see http://www.millenniata.com/ http://www.millenniata.com/. Electronics vendors do the same thing when creating 20 Year+ Lifetime components - Just heat it up to 85 degrees, then drop it down to -45. Repeat over and over to advance the aging process. I've heard that the LDS church / Vatican have both been interested in the archival media, and they have a pretty good long perspective, so might be worth checking with technologists in that realm.
- SageRaven 16y agoAccording to Wikipedia, the LDS Granite Mountain Vault (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Granite_Mountain_(Utah) http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Granite_Mountain_(Utah)) adds 40,000 rolls of microfiche per year. Not sure how current that info is, though; the LDS church is pretty secretive with a lot of its methodology.