Blu-ray disc saves data for two centuries

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30 Jun 08 16:53 by Timmie in category Uncategorized To news archive

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After we reported the world’s fastest 6x write-once Blu-ray disc earlier this month, now also Delkin comes with Blu-ray news. It seems every manufacturer wants to earn its spot, in the still young and developing market.

Delkin Devices comes with a new disc they rather refer to as ‘Archival Gold’. This ‘gold’ quality Blu-ray disc is the world’s first to guarantee two centuries of safe data storage, says Delkin. It’s "guaranteed to preserve data safely for over 200 years", meaning we will now need players that survive that long.

A special technology protects the disc against UV degradation and should have a sunscreen effect. Besides this we see a protective layer, a so-called anti-scratch coating, and they come in a 10-pack 25GB version costing $250. Ouch!

10 Comments

Crabbyappleton: Posts: 5756; Posted on: 30 Jun 08 20:53

How do they go about "guaranteeing" it? What happens if the data is lost? Do you get a policy for every file or every disc? How much is the maximum loss they will cover?

Liggy: Posts: 6442; Posted on: 30 Jun 08 21:02

The maximum loss they will cover is the price that you had to pay for the disc or they may even just give you another blank disc

Crabbyappleton: Posts: 5756; Posted on: 30 Jun 08 23:08

Wow. that's comforting. *rolls eyes*

pinkish: Posts: 66; Posted on: 30 Jun 08 23:08

this is absolute crap, i remember the infamous gold cds. a publicity stunt, that's it.

guest: Posts: 15288; Posted on: 01 Jul 08 00:18

Since it is very unlikely that I will live another 200 years, is the guarantee or warranty transferable to your descendents? Can you put it in your will? Guarantees generally come with an "or else" clause, so if your disk becomes unreadable after 10 or 20 years, what do you get?

BitRate: Posts: 410; Posted on: 01 Jul 08 02:24

Yeah, complete marketing BS. Kodak promised that its Gold CDs would last "hundreds of years" if used properly. That turned into one big farce when discs started failing after 2-3 years

professor_nova: Posts: 68; Posted on: 01 Jul 08 09:45

And we are having dificulties reading old backup tapes and other backup stuf from 40~50 years ago, will blue ray readers exist in 200 years time!
This message was edited at: 01-07-2008 09:52

guest: Posts: 15288; Posted on: 01 Jul 08 18:09

Lol - some companies are so desperate for attention. As stated by prof_nova... WHO is gonna have blu-ray in 200 years ? It may be gone in 10 years, let alone 200 !

guest: Posts: 15288; Posted on: 02 Jul 08 00:39

If I burn very very important data on this 200 years guaranteed discs, I will make sure to also buy an extra Blu-ray burner and put all the BD discs and burners inside a safety deposit box. :d Oh don\\\\\\\'t forget to include a SATA PCI card incase no SATA in 200 years. Hmm, make that e-Sata. Hmm, darn, just include the entire PC or a laptop with blu-ray reader from Sony! :d :d

guest: Posts: 15288; Posted on: 08 Jul 08 18:23

I have been in the data backup business for many years. When a customer asks how long the data will last on a given media, my stock answer is longer than you will have a drive to read it on. And that haalways been the case. Compatible drives for a given media will be long gone before the media itself would be unreadable. The other problem is what software was used for the backup. Unless the data is just in a standard file structure, the software will be long gone too.

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