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Re:ThinkPads 2020 - X13 AMD - X1 Nano? by yjftsjthsd-h on Tuesday February 18, 2020 @02:35PM (#22359498)
Doesn't optical media degrade to the point of no longer being readable after a few years?
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Re:ThinkPads 2020 - X13 AMD - X1 Nano? by pengaru on Tuesday February 18, 2020 @04:34PM (#22360637)
My personal experience has been surprisingly good even with cheap TDK CDRs I burned in the 90s still reading just fine decades later.

For especially valuable data you want to preserve for 100+ years, there are "archival quality" discs [0] [1].

[0] http://mam-a-store.com/goldcdr.html

[1] https://www.mediasupply.com/mamgold.html

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