Subj : Re: floppy disks
To   : Nightfox
From : boraxman
Date : Tue Apr 29 2025 10:40 am

-=> Nightfox wrote to boraxman <=-

 Ni>   Re: Re: floppy disks
 Ni>   By: boraxman to Nightfox on Tue Apr 29 2025 02:05 am

 bo> I once bought a spindle of cheap, no name disks.  They were duds, didn't
 bo> last.

 bo> I always purchased Verbatim, and on occasion TDK.  I have disks now 20+
 bo> years old that are still find.  Only once, with one spindle of Verbatim
 bo> disks, did I get a manufacturing defect, that resulted in a few failing
 bo> after a year or two.

 bo> Apart from that, which clearly was a manufacturing defect, CD-Rs and
 bo> DVD-Rs have been rock-solid.

 Ni> Yeah, I've seen people mention optical discs going bad (disc rot) but I
 Ni> can't say I've experienced that myself.  I still have one of the first
 Ni> DVD movies I ever bought (in 2000; and commercially made, not a DVD-R)
 Ni> and I just played it again last year and it was fine.

 Ni> As far as CD-Rs and DVD-Rs, I generally haven't had a problem with
 Ni> those either.  I think TDK was one of the better brands.  I often saw a
 Ni> lot of Memorex CD-Rs and DVD-Rs in stores, but I wasn't confident in
 Ni> them anymore after a while and generally tried to look for other
Ni> brands.

I remember reading ages ago they had a limited lifespan, 20 years, 30 years for
pressed CD, shorter for burned.

The oldest CD I've got is 30 years aold, and its still fine.  No music CD I've
bought has "gone bad".  Burned CD are still good, except for a few which were
probably made bad from the start.

STor them well, not in sunlight or excessively hot and humid conditions.

.... BoraxMan
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