BD-R life expectancy?

Laurence wrote on 4/6/2009, 1:07 PM

I am archiving a bunch of stuff onto BD-R. I have an external writer but an internal reader on my laptop, so this will save me juggling so many DVD+-Rs.

My question is if anyone has an estimate yet of how long BD-Rs will last. Hopefully it will be a bit longer than the four or five years max I seem to get with DVD+-Rs.

Comments

farss wrote on 4/6/2009, 1:40 PM

"Hopefully it will be a bit longer than the four or five years max I seem to get with DVD+-Rs. "

The higher data density alone would suggest the opposite would be the case. Even if that wasn't the case the amount of data that will be lost due to a single disk failure says your library will be less reliable.

Bob.

Jeff9329 wrote on 4/7/2009, 10:03 AM

Bobs answer is dead on.

kentwolf wrote on 4/7/2009, 12:42 PM

>>... I'm not going to be available that much longer so archiving is getting easier for me all the time...

That's pretty funny.

Never thought of it like that. :)