Are you already salvaging your CD-Rs, Sup Forums?

>Disc recorded in 2004
>No longer readable
>check with another drive
>nope
Beware of the CD-R scam, Sup Forums. Mine was of a certain quality (not pic related). I didn't buy the cheapest crap back then, I bought 'good' discs. It has been stored in a dark, dry place with no dust.
Why though? Isn't optical storage supposed to be superior to magnetic? Yet I have floppies from the 90's still readable.
How many of my discs could be fucked as I write?

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>Yet I have floppies from the 90's still readable.
There were already problems when they were brand new, m8.

>what is disc rot?
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Disc_rot

data rot is a real thing, there's nothing that can really be done about it, you should ideally keep multiple backups of your important data in diferent places using diferent storage means and replacing them every 3-5 years

A few weeks ago I dug out a disc of a game that I burned back in 2002 or so. It worked fine, I made an ISO of it. Don't know whether it was just a good disc, because I read it at a low speed, or just luck. Saving 600MB of hard drive space isn't so much of a concern as it was then.

umm sweetie we stopped using CDs 15 years ago

>Are you already salvaging your CD-Rs, Sup Forums?
Why the hell would I try storing data I care about on CDs? That way I KNOW I will inevitably lose it.

Data rot is real. We had a emulator from the 90's when console emulators were a new thing and most of the roms were corrupted. I ended up throwing away the CD-R as it was garbage. I think I threw it away in the mid to late 2000's, like 2008. Backup your shit if you don't want disk rot.

Same user.
Also, use a different archival method instead of CD-R's. They are possibly one of the worse, besides cassette.

OP, just use something else, instead of CD's.
>backing up on CD-R

Underage pls leave

I have 4 shoeboxs full of burned music cd-r up to like 10 years old, only played 1 with errors so far.

since this thread is about discs, what does Sup Forums think about m-discs? do any of you use them? are they worth it?

>Isn't optical storage supposed to be superior to magnetic?
It is. The pressed ones made of aluminum (aka, original CDs). CD-Rs are made of an emulsion that degrades easily.

Those Sony CD-R's were trash back then. Even Memorex CD-R's were better.

I use M Discs for my important data these days. Will report back in 20 years and tell if they are a meme

>hoarding 'data'
everything dies user, just let it go whatever it was

weird, i have like 100+ psx games, obviously all are CD-R, punished as hell but all work with issues and no visible rot.

Get a NAS or something like that with three copies of your data on three hard disks and regularly compare them. Overwrite any deviations with the data stored on the two good ones. Replace a disk if it deviates significantly more than the others.

This got me bad Sup Forums. Now, I have to try and remember what my gf looked like back then. I lost memories because of this shit. Nobody warned me.

Should have got verbatim.

But what will happen to all my low res early 00's porn.

But what about your CDs from 15 years ago?

I still have tons of floppies and IOMEGA ZIP disks and they all work.

I just store stuff on these things called "hard drives"

These became obsolete around 2010, it's your fault for being a retard. I haven't seen/owned/used an optical unit in a lot of time.

sony cd-rs are or were the worst brand ever, I only used maxell and the disks still work to this day
verbatim were ok too

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