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You must take good care of your CDs, or they made better quality ones back in the 90s as most of them degrade after 10 years or less. http://en.wikipedia.org/w
by dalore 13y ago
You must take good care of your CDs, or they made better quality ones back in the 90s as most of them degrade after 10 years or less.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CD-R#Lifespan http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CD-R#Lifespan
- nknighthb 13y agoI've never seen a serious study on the subject (at least not in English), only anecdata, so I've never been sure how much veracity to assign to claims of the commonality of CD-R degradation. It wouldn't surprise me if 90s-era discs were higher quality, though -- for my own anecdata, I've had only one batch of CD-Rs ever show evidence of degradation, and it was one of the last I ever bought and seriously used in the early 2000s. I've never seen a problem with DVD-Rs, but I didn't use nearly as many of those. I haven't written new optical disks for practically anything other than OS installation media since ~2003/2004, and in the last few years I've rarely even done that. (And I never made the hop to BD-R. From a data storage perspective, I found it pretty much obsolete on arrival.)
- abawany 13y agoMy anecdote re. BD-R: I got the Verbatim "good" discs (made in Taiwan, good dye technology - sorry I forgot the specifics) a while ago and used them to backup data (that fortunately had backups to other places as well). Months later, tried to read them. No dice. I was shocked as I thought BD-R's were built more robustly than DVD+-R's. BTW, this is true of all 3 discs that I tried, albeit they came from the same 50-pack.