Solutions for the Archivist

If you are in the business of archiving on CD and DVD, here’s a way you can improve profitability and reduce costly problems in your business.  

Without a means to measure disc quality, you don't know what you have.  It is a demonstrable fact that a high quality disc will have a much longer lifetime than a poor quality disc.  Because all discs will degrade over time, you want to archive the best quality discs you can.

  Identify discs that are unsuitable for archiving.

  Evaluate and qualify DVD/CD media. Find out which type of media works best with your writers. Identify bad batches of media before burning a bunch of bad discs.

  Identify burners that are failing or about to fail. Fix the problem before discs fail.

  Discover if the problem is the media or the writer.

  Find the writing speed that produces the best results.

Remember:

  Data comparison does not measure disc quality (more...).

  Just because you can read it doesn’t mean it’s good.

  Poor disc quality can cause unreliable operation and short lifetime.

Check out these products suited to the archive environment:

  For CD's only, CDX is the best solution

  For DVD's, DVX is your solution; it also can test CD's

  AMM-1 adds important additional capability to insure disc playability.

  Our Autoloader option automates the testing process.