Cd-rs that DISINTIGRATED

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Have you had cd-rs disintigrate on you? How long do you supose they will last for ? Should I be backing them all up? My DJ Towa Tei cd-r has always been flakey, but now its actually flaking!

― Mr. Latham Green (hanle y 3000), Saturday, 28 January 2006 10:51 (twenty years ago)

I've not seen this happen before. I suppose that CD-Rs do have a certain flimsyness, you can see through them for a start.

http://www.practicalpc.co.uk/computing/storage/cdrlifespan.htm

― jel -- (jel), Saturday, 28 January 2006 11:34 (twenty years ago)

Perhaps, you should record it on to a cassette.

― jel -- (jel), Saturday, 28 January 2006 11:35 (twenty years ago)

75 years eh? I wonder if I will live to be 107.

― Mr. Latham Green (hanle y 3000), Saturday, 28 January 2006 11:46 (twenty years ago)

I don't wonder. I will.

― LeCoq (LeCoq), Saturday, 28 January 2006 12:53 (twenty years ago)

Thus Spoke Chuck Norris.

― Tuomas (Tuomas), Saturday, 28 January 2006 13:33 (twenty years ago)

Perhaps, you should record it on to a cassette.

Well, there *are* still people who think that tape is a better format for long-term storage than CDR.

― Forest Pines (ForestPines), Saturday, 28 January 2006 13:34 (twenty years ago)

I put all my CDRs in those paper sleeves with the plastic window, and now some of the discs have stuck to the plastic, which ruins the CDR when you take it out because bits of the disc surface come off and stay stuck to the plastic! Which sucks. I want to find some sleeves without the plastic windows, because I have no use for it anyway, but they don't seem to make any!

― Colonel Poo (Colonel Poo), Saturday, 28 January 2006 14:34 (twenty years ago)

Don't those sleeves have a window side and an all-paper side?

― truck-patch pixel farmer (my crop froze in the field) (Rock Hardy), Saturday, 28 January 2006 14:50 (twenty years ago)

My god!

― Tuomas (Tuomas), Saturday, 28 January 2006 14:51 (twenty years ago)

Meaning, if you have the disc's label side to the window of the sleeve, and the info side to the paper side of the sleeve, no problem, right?

― truck-patch pixel farmer (my crop froze in the field) (Rock Hardy), Saturday, 28 January 2006 14:51 (twenty years ago)

Meaning, if you have the disc's label side to the window of the sleeve, and the info side to the paper side of the sleeve, no problem, right?
-- truck-patch pixel farmer (my crop froze in the field) ([email protected]), January 28th, 2006 2:51 PM. (Rock Hardy) (later)

I wish. If either side gets stuck to the window, the CD's knackered, doesn't matter which side it is. I have the data side to the paper side, anyway.

― Colonel Poo (Colonel Poo), Saturday, 28 January 2006 14:53 (twenty years ago)

All the CD-rs I've ever bought have a plastic case, just like regular ones. Where do you get these paper sleeve thingies?

― Tuomas (Tuomas), Saturday, 28 January 2006 14:54 (twenty years ago)

From shops. They take up a lot less room than plastic cases, if you have a lot of CDRs.

― Colonel Poo (Colonel Poo), Saturday, 28 January 2006 14:57 (twenty years ago)

There was a cheapo but dependable brand I bought way back (Tiesco?) that flaked apart.As long as you get a decent brand, I think you're safe. Even Staples' media is solid. Meh, maybe not Staples. I don't want to give them a glowing rec if I don't really know for SURE for sure, but they're at every office I've ever been in and their DVD-Rs seem solid from my personal experience so far.

― CD-Rsehole, Saturday, 28 January 2006 15:32 (twenty years ago)

Ah, okay. I have only a few. I'm an old-fashioned type who still buys music.

(x-post)

― Tuomas (Tuomas), Saturday, 28 January 2006 15:33 (twenty years ago)

they used to be dark blue in the 90's but now they are light green. what up with that?

― Mr. Latham Green (hanle y 3000), Saturday, 28 January 2006 22:27 (twenty years ago)

i liked the black ones they sold for a while which were completely meant for people who bootlegged playstation games

― kyle (akmonday), Saturday, 28 January 2006 22:53 (twenty years ago)

manufacturers, when pressed, won't guarantee them beyond 2 years, so if you're writing data to cds that you want to last, then make a back up copy, and refresh them every couple of years or so.

Well, there *are* still people who think that tape is a better format for long-term storage than CDR a hell of a lot of people in the electronic records management profession for a start. As a long term preservation media for electronic files, they suck.

― Vicky (Vicky), Sunday, 29 January 2006 00:02 (twenty years ago)

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