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posted by RayeR Homepage, CZ, 26.04.2014, 17:25

> Good quality optical media stored in good conditions should last 10 years
> easily, longer than the avg HDD.
> Of course the cheapest media kept in a sunny place last shorter.
I have serious doubts about it. Maybe problem is to buy what you call "quality optical media" because there are lot of counterfeits of e.g. Verbatim media. China guys can also make false ATIP so you cannot normally recognize it when you buy it. It simply last shorter but it's late then...
I didn't have dead DVD yet because I moved to DVDs quite late, maybe 5 yers ago but I had a lot of died CD medias that was 5-10 years old. I always buy better media that costed higher price and burned them on slow speeds and I keep them in the dark at room temp, low humidity. But nothing helps against internal chemical degradation. I think that quality of medias decayed during years. My first CD-R is golden TDK burned in 1997 and it's still perfectly readable. It costed ~30x more than common CD-R nowdays...
I don't belive CD/DVD more, I also keep backup of all disc on HDD mirror-RAID and some important data aslo on DVD-RAM.

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