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> Which has issues with rot I think this is extremely overblown. I have DVDs that are 25 years old that spent 10 of those years in an attic and have no issues
by xienze 2y ago
> Which has issues with rot
I think this is extremely overblown. I have DVDs that are 25 years old that spent 10 of those years in an attic and have no issues whatsoever. I ripped all of them, plus Blu-rays ranging from “new” to 15 years old just a few years ago. Several hundred discs, zero issues.
- garciansmith 2y agoDiscs rot, it happens. And it's only going to get worse as they get older. https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2025/03/they-curdle-like-milk-wb-dvds-from-2006-2008-are-rotting-away-in-their-cases/ https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2025/03/they-curdle-like-mil...
- tombert 2y agoYeah, that's a big reason that I wanted to (hypothetically speaking) rip all my blu-rays and DVDs. Rip them while they're still good, and store them on a RAID hard drive cluster with proper error correction, and I think that as long as I'm a little vigilant with scrubbing and replacing drives when they fail, it should last quite awhile.