CD, DVD, Blu-ray news to life
Basically, it makes a difference whether you burn the media yourself, or pressed to buy. Pressed the media to keep several years longer. You can take the following values:
- The life of the CD: 10 to 30 years.
- The life of the DVD: 10 to 30 years.
- Life of the Blu-ray: 50 to 80 years.
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CD, DVD, Blu-ray life improve
- The disks are all similar to fragile, if you come up with sunlight in touch. The UV radiation can ensure that the protective layer is decomposed, and the disc is unusable. Store the Discs in the dark.
- Scratches and contamination of the main reason for defects in the data carriers. If the CD, DVD, or Blu-is not recognized, ray, or do you want to remove fingerprints, you should use only a minimal moist cloth. Best glasses cleaning cloths are suitable.
- To high humidity can pull the protective layer is also affected. The plate can sometimes be cloudy bend, what complicates the reading process.
- Blu-rays are due to their more stable protective layer less susceptible to the most damage, and are, also due to their higher storage capacity, better for archiving.
- For storage, trade, recommend, also, the usual plastic covers. The disk, you should store it horizontally in a light-protected place at room temperature.
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As outdated DVDs on your hard drive can, and so to the short lifetime of prevention, we will show you in the next tip.
