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What is the shelf life of unused/unburned CD-R/CD-RW disks? (2014)
- ddingus 5y agoI have some that are well over a decade old. Just a few weeks ago, I used a few. They worked. But, I never use optical media for secure storage. It is always opportunistic. Use it, until it fails, make more.
- simonblack 5y agoI remember when CDROMs first came out, they were going to be secure storage for centuries, much better than those nasty spinning-rust hard drives. Guess what I use for my backups these days? Yep, multiple redundant spinning-rust hard drives. I don't think I have used a CD/DVD for storage for years. I suppose I should throw away the 100 or so burnables that have been sitting on my shelf for quite some time, just taking up space.