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It matches my experience. Even decades-old CD-ROMs only fail when they are scratched or physically damaged, which you can prevent by keeping them in appropriate
by blueflow 5y ago
It matches my experience. Even decades-old CD-ROMs only fail when they are scratched or physically damaged, which you can prevent by keeping them in appropriate cases and always put them back after use.
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- codazoda 5y agoMy own experience is different. I had several brands of CD media that lasted less than 10 years. Many of them you could see the damage (cracks through the shiny layer). Some were dark blue, some a light blue. Almost all of them were bad. I had them stored in a light proof zipper pouch and stored at room temperature in a closet. Maybe something special happened to them over the years but very few worked. This would have been some of the first CD-R and CD-RW media available. I opened them more than 20 years ago so the media would have been 30 to 40 years old today. Anyway, I haven’t trusted optical since then.
- ghostly_s 5y agoAgain - did you use some method to confirm there was zero bitrot on these discs? Or are you concluding they were still good simply because you were able to get data off them?