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I just went to the drawer to check - It appears as though most of the earliest CD-R discs were HHB gold archival discs. Some of them came from external masterin

I just went to the drawer to check - It appears as though most of the earliest CD-R discs were HHB gold archival discs. Some of them came from external mastering facilities, so would be on something else. Around 2002, they standardized on Mitsui MAM-A for the archival copies. Interesting enough, those discs have had very few issues. It appears as though the early DVD-R discs were Mitsui MAM-A, with us switching over to Taiyo Yuden in early 2007. Since we have all that stuff on network storage, I haven't gone back to check how the Taiyo Yuden discs have fared over time.

hga 12y ago
When I was last buying media, Taiyo Yuden DVD-R media cost one cent more than their famed CD-R media, for what that's worth. Never had a problem with it, but I've never used it for anything really important (e.g. installation discs were I kept a hard disk copy). This is the first time I can remember ever hearing of HHB gold archival CD-R discs. That's probably not a good sign given how much I was into this field back then, they certainly weren't on the recommended list of anyone I respected. After Kodak stopped making their gold discs, Taiyo Yuden, or Mitsui/MAM-A if you felt like it gave you extra protection. Ah, you did check to make sure that each disc burned could be read back, didn't you?
- esonderegger 12y ago
  I didn't start working here until 2006, so I don't really know the details of what the process was like back then for testing discs after they had been burned. I assume at least a verification step was involved. Now, when I want to see how bad a disc has gotten, I use PlexTools to do a Q-Check. However, we haven't considered anything on optical media to be a master copy for a while (at least five years). CDs only get burned when someone wants to listen to something in their car.

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I just went to the drawer to check - It appears as though most of the earliest CD-R discs were HHB gold archival discs. Some of them came from external masterin

by esonderegger 12y ago

hga 12y ago
When I was last buying media, Taiyo Yuden DVD-R media cost one cent more than their famed CD-R media, for what that's worth. Never had a problem with it, but I've never used it for anything really important (e.g. installation discs were I kept a hard disk copy). This is the first time I can remember ever hearing of HHB gold archival CD-R discs. That's probably not a good sign given how much I was into this field back then, they certainly weren't on the recommended list of anyone I respected. After Kodak stopped making their gold discs, Taiyo Yuden, or Mitsui/MAM-A if you felt like it gave you extra protection. Ah, you did check to make sure that each disc burned could be read back, didn't you?
- esonderegger 12y ago
  I didn't start working here until 2006, so I don't really know the details of what the process was like back then for testing discs after they had been burned. I assume at least a verification step was involved. Now, when I want to see how bad a disc has gotten, I use PlexTools to do a Q-Check. However, we haven't considered anything on optical media to be a master copy for a while (at least five years). CDs only get burned when someone wants to listen to something in their car.