Re: Heat Death of the Internet

Am 03.05.2024 schrieb Joerg Walther <joerg.walther@magenta.de>:

Not "especially", but "only when". My oldest CDs and DVDs date back
from the late 90s and can still be read (I am currently transferring
them to HDD for easier access), but of course I only used good blanks
(Taiyo Yuden, etc) and a Plextor burner. So the expectations (mere
speculations) which predicted a quite short lifespan of a couple of
years for burned CDs/DVDs imho turned out to be too pessimistic.

It also depends on the disks.
I used cheap ones from Aldi and they were not readable after some
years, although some light reached them.
I hate optical disks, too low memory density and I don't have drives
anymore. All sold.