• lost_faith
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    1 month ago

    I always bought the cheapest discs for backing up my media and out of maybe 1000 disks, checked last year, only 15 or so were either partly or completely unreadable

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      1 month ago

      Same for me; pretty much all my CD-R are blank now; despite being stored properly 15 years ago.

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        1 month ago

        The last burnt CDs were in 2k2, I just kept em on their spindles on my bottom shelf (not protected any more than that thru hot and cold) and all but 15ish were toast. Might have gotten lucky