Sony: Optical Disc Endurance Test

How Much Can a Storage Medium Endure? The Optical Discs for XDCAM HD Had to Undergo an Extreme Endurance Test.

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Only the tough make it into the garden, as the saying goes, which can sometimes also be said of the ambitious testers who freeze a disc in sub-zero temperatures and snow. A storage medium could not escape a cycle in the dishwasher either.

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