INTERNATIONAL ISO/IEC STANDARD 10995 Second edition 2011-06-15 Information technology Digitally recorded mediaforinformation interchange and storage Test method for the estimation of the archival lifetime of optical media Technologies de Iinformation-Supports enregistres numeriquement pour'echange et le stockage d'information-Methode d'essai pour I'estimation de la dureede vie d'archivage des supports optiques Reference number ISO/IEC 10995:2011(E) IEC ISO/IEC201 ISO/IEC10995:2011(E) COPYRIGHTPROTECTEDDOCUMENT ISO/IEC2011 All rights reserved. Unless otherwise specified, no part of this publication may be reproduced or utilized in any form or by any means, electronic or mechanical, including photocopying and microfilm, without permission in writing from either iSO at the address below or IsO's member body in the country of the requester. ISO copyright office Case postale56.CH-1211Geneva20 Tel. + 41 22 749 01 11 Fax + 41 22 749 09 47 E-mail copyright@iso.org Web www.iso.org Published in Switzerland ISO/IEC10995:2011(E) Contents Page Foreword Introduction 1 Scope 2 Conformance. Normative references. 4 Terms and definitions.. 5 Conventionsandnotations 5.1 Representationofnumbers.. 5.2 Names.. 6 Abbreviatedterms. 7 Measurements 7.1 Summary 7.2 Testspecimen. 7.3 Recording conditions.... 7.4 Playback conditions... 7.5 Disktestinglocations ... 8 Accelerated stress test.... 8.1 General. 8.2 Stressconditions 8.3 Measuring Time intervals .. 8.4 Stress Conditions Design.. 8.5 Media Orientation .... 9 Data Evaluation... 9.1 Time-to-failure... 9.2 Eyring acceleration model (Eyring Method). 9.3 Data analysis.... Annex A (normative)Data Analysis Steps Outline for Calculation of Media Life. AnnexB(normative)AnalysisforCalculationofMediaLife AnnexC(normative)UncontrolledAmbientConditionMediaLifeCalculation. ..22 Annex D (informative)Truncated Test Method (Determination of Media Life Lower Bound).... ....23 AnnexE(informative)RelationbetweenBERandPISum8 Bibliography... 27