[geeks] Commiserate with me ... this sucks.

[Joshua Boyd]

On Thu, Jul 01, 2004 at 10:30:45AM -0400, Kevin wrote:
> I've got several burned CD's from 1996 that still work fine.  On
> the other hand, i've got several DVD-R's from last year that you
> can tell that, just from visual inspection, they will not work. 
> I've even seen pics of a CDR destroyed by a bacteria that eats
> the dye.  Scary stuff.
> 
> Nothing scientific about it, but my assumption is that some of
> the older media is better (when blank CDRs were ~$20 a pop) were
> made a bit better than the nickel each CDRs we have today.
> 
> As we all know, it is certainly not infallible, but i trust
> magnetic tape more than most backup medias.  

It would be nice to see someone rank brands of CD-Rs.  I wouldn't mind
paying $0.50-$1 per disk for disks I could expect to last awhile.