Thanks for the site Homeless, some good interesting reading there.

Bev and Jerry, I don't know about paranoid. They seem to present
the problems, (if there are any), in a fairly impartial way, they
do mention one or two products (disks and pens) that they reccomend,
and, of course, they promote the products that they sell. Fair
enough.
As to the rest of the content, it seems very reasonable to me, I
welcome any information on the use and storage of these disks, and
it did get me wondering if the cheap bulk disks I am buying would
last as long as I hoped that they would.

Who knows? have we been using them long enough for anyone to say
whether they will last one year or ten?

When I think about this sort of thing, I always think about when they
started making boats out of glass fibre, they estimated that they
would only last for ten to fifteen years, now look at them, still
looking good after thirty or forty years. On the other hand they
might have only lasted five years.

I think that taking the best ideas out of all the information that
you can get your hands on can only enhance the life of your disks,
(and the precious information on them).

Just my 2p's worth

And thanks again for the site Homeless.

Cheers

Cattail !