[ale] is USB stick safer than CD-ROM/DVD

[transam at VerySecureLinux.com (Bob Toxen)]

On Fri, Apr 25, 2008 at 11:14:45PM -0400, jtholmes wrote:
> We have so many pictures on DVD that it takes about
> 4 DVD's to hold them all and it keeps growing.

That dvdisaster site claims that data on DVDs first fails near the outer
rim.  Inspecting my backup DVDs indicates that they are burned from the
innermost ring first.

Thus, if one simply does not use more than 90-95% of the DVD capacity
there will be no data near the outer rim and thus no data loss for a
longer period of time.

Thoughts?

Bob