I have a huge book of old CD-Rs with games on it I've been going through the last year and getting into a more usable format. I don't think any of them have failed except the ones with obviously physical damage. They aren't as bad as they seem given normal inside storage conditions.
This stuff being things that have been totally out of mind for a decade plus. That's one of the reasons I like discs, I put this stuff away to the level of almost discarding it and it's still fine. Many other formats I would have had to actively keep, and I don't think I have anything left that was on my computer in the 90s that wasn't on CD.
Modern BD-R is nice too, they are so niche more effort is put into longevity than when CD-Rs were everywhere.
I considered migrating my old CDs to more modern storage but it's all stuff I haven't touched in a decade and probably never will again. So it doesn't really matter if it still works or not. The CDs can continue to exist in their Schrödinger state .
I have a huge book of old CD-Rs with games on it I've been going through the last year and getting into a more usable format. I don't think any of them have failed except the ones with obviously physical damage. They aren't as bad as they seem given normal inside storage conditions.
This stuff being things that have been totally out of mind for a decade plus. That's one of the reasons I like discs, I put this stuff away to the level of almost discarding it and it's still fine. Many other formats I would have had to actively keep, and I don't think I have anything left that was on my computer in the 90s that wasn't on CD.
Modern BD-R is nice too, they are so niche more effort is put into longevity than when CD-Rs were everywhere.
I considered migrating my old CDs to more modern storage but it's all stuff I haven't touched in a decade and probably never will again. So it doesn't really matter if it still works or not. The CDs can continue to exist in their Schrödinger state .