Optical media is the longest lasting medium currently in production. It can reliably hold onto your data for 50-100 years without power or cooling, and without the worry of magnetic degradation. Using recordable optical media such as DVD-R is perfectly suitable for long-term archiving because it is write-once, read-many, meaning it is physically immutable—cannot be changed—so the data on it is tamper-proof.[Get regularly scheduled insights by signing up for Network World newsletters.]It seems, then, that optical media might dominate archived storage, but it doesn’t. To explore why, first let’s take a look at the technology.To read this article in full, please click her
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