We are now using flash drives for our talking newspaper, and they do seem to
fail after a while.
Some tend to lose space until they are smaller than the original, others
present as ticking noises in the stream.
I'd imagine though, if we were going to use them as write once media, like
cds, they should be rom based that should last longer as long as they are
not eprom ones as I used to have bad experiences with that technology, due
to them not liking being in sunlight very much. Indeed some made in the 80s
have almost completely turned to gibberish, cosmic rays I'm told, really?
Brian

"Dave Plowman (News)" wrote in message
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RJH wrote:

I've never been that convinced by optical media - far from the 'perfect
forever' we were asked to believe.

Is anything? Magnetic has a poor life too. Solid state too new to know for
sure.

Of all the media we have data on, ordinary film seems to survive well if
stored in reasonable conditions.

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