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What's about CD-Rs? 10 years? I know it depends on the quality of the disc. In college a photography professor once mentioned that he used gold plated CD-Rs
by ddw 15y ago
What's about CD-Rs? 10 years? I know it depends on the quality of the disc.
In college a photography professor once mentioned that he used gold plated CD-Rs or something like that because they would last longer.
- chaosmachine 15y agoA few months ago, I went to dig up some of my early music-making efforts (burned to CD-R in 1999), only to find out they were unreadable. It turns out at least 10% of my "old CD pile" is already dead or damaged. The ones with stick-on labels are especially difficult to read.
- jamesgeck0 15y agoI'd imagine it also depends on how you store them and what climate you live in.
- wazoox 15y agoI have a bunch of late-20th century CD-Rs; and actually the cheapest ones are those that still work; all the gold-plated, branded CD-Rs (Kodak, etc) are mostly unreadable.