Decaying disks

[shadowsz14]

CD's that I burned back in 2000 have gone bad. I made 20 of them, and everyone of them doesn't work. Is it the cheap media that I used, or do CD's decompose over time? If I want to have them last, what brand should I use?

 

[wipeout833]

Yes they do degrade over time which is a shame, I use fuji cdrs and I have good success with those. I know I read a article somewhere( I will search for it later) about the best way to take care of cds to slow the process of it degradation.

Article

 

[Ice Czar]

http://www.silverace.com/dottyspotty/issue12.html
http://www.personal.leeds.ac.uk/~ecldh/paper2.html
http://www.mam-e.com/web/sys_coul.phtml

Phthalocyanine Dye, lack of light and heat dark refrigerated storage if you can swing it
and reburn the data fairly regularly (like keep one set one year, burn a duplicate a year later, then verify both every half a year until one fails and then burn a backup again)

I maintain redundancy between hard media and online RAID5

 

[Bullitt]

heh, some of my precision media from 2000 has become translucent starting at the center. It has to be the light issue, I didnt take care of the media and since I went with win2k and xp, I ceased to care about my 98 copy except I still keep it to keep my upgrade licenses legit.