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Re: [Digital BW] Re: OT - CD/DVD study with corrosion intercept

2007-08-13 by Peter Marshall

I use the aluminium cases as used by DJs, which have plastic hanging 
sleeves to contain the CDs, but I suspect there may be better solutions 
from an archival point of view, as I don't know the composition of the 
sleeves. But they do greatly reduce the storage volume, and also 
organise the disks better. It takes me generally less than 30s to find a 
file out of the several hundred thousand here if I know the file name.

At the moment I'm feeling rather envious of these people who have an 
internet connection faster than my 8xDVD 52xCD drive :-)  I abandoned 
the idea of Internet storage when I worked out how long it would take to 
upload the typically 8Gb I shoot in a working day.

Regards,

Peter

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Peter Marquis-Kyle wrote:
> Peter Marshall wrote:
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>> I'm surprised that anyone should ever consider long term storage of CDs 
>> in jewel cases, any more than most of us used to store slides in those 
>> plastic boxes in which they came back from processing.
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> Good point, Peter. So what do you use to store CDs?
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> Peter Marquis-Kyle
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