PSA: take some time in 2023 to back up your/your family's CD-Rs (and other recordable media) full of memories you threw into storage 10+ years ago; there's a decent chance they've started to rot!
the tenuously thin layer of dyes/adhesives holding the data *will* break down over time, rapidly so if their environment is uncontrolled, the surface was previously nicked/contaminated, or they were cheap ones to begin with
@0x56 I made lots of efforts to use quality Taiyo-Yuden CDC's, but good reminder to move to a spare SSD / HDD.
I've heard from former WD tech that SD / flash cards (drives?) is bad for archival as they will also decharge / "forget" sooner than you'd expect.
@0x56 Flash from back then also wasn't very reliable. I had an 1GB SD card that entirely failed. The maker doesn't exist anymore either -- HMM.
Sticking to established manufacturers may help (SanDisk, Samsung, no failures with these), or just keep moving it around to the next Black-Friday sale item, lol.
I got a cassette (Commodore), many floppies, Zips, etc I think I should archive. Is it still too early? 😅
@ShrikeTron fair point, it was only cheaper PNYs that have failed, and afaict even the oldest SanDisks are still okay (for now). i'll have to crack them open and see what actual flash mfgs i'm dealing with
also lol, my Applesauce and half-imaged box of disks heard this and is now staring accusingly at me from the shelf
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