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I have CD-Rs that I burned 20 years ago that are still readable. I would say this is the majority of disks. I have a box of thumb drives that are between 10 an
by pdntspa 4y ago
I have CD-Rs that I burned 20 years ago that are still readable. I would say this is the majority of disks.
I have a box of thumb drives that are between 10 and 20 years old... less than half of them even register, let alone read anything. And often those that do quickly die.
- orangepurple 4y agoNot only that but if you budget for an expected error rate of let's say 10% you can use par2 to create additional files that add that redundancy to your archives. par2 default redundancy is set to 5%. PAR2 uses Reed-Solomon Coding to perform its calculations. https://github.com/Parchive/par2cmdline https://github.com/Parchive/par2cmdline
- joecool1029 4y agoyup, that's what I do for my longterm archives. BTW, new hardware instruction optimized version: https://github.com/animetosho/par2cmdline-turbo/ https://github.com/animetosho/par2cmdline-turbo/