On 3/2/07, aaron s <> wrote:
> I would stay away from MD. The disc are unreliable and
> the transfer issues make it a less good choice and I
> believe the technoligy to be on the way out.
Correction: MD discs are one of the most robust media ever made.
I have NEVER had a disk fail and I have recorded hundreds of them with
many different consumer recorders in punishing conditions. I dubbed a
ten-year \-old recording yesterday and it was still perfect. The
medium is inert and the plastic shells make the disks almost entirely
resistant to scratching.
One reason I continue to advocate for MD is that when I record them I
have a stable archive copy from day one. I have had many harddrives
fail and some CDRs degrade, but never a minidisc.
Until CF becomes cost competitive as a permanent archive (soon, I
hope; I also use a SD 722) this is still the killer feature of MD.
(Also, I hope Sony makes a CF recorder with the same front end as its
current HiMD...)
best,
aaron x
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