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grayfaced
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Longevity of Recordable CDs, DVDs and Blu-Rays (20...
And how many did they fail to read?
danielheath
on Oct 7, 2022
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Of the ones that were stored appropriately, virtually all are still readable.
Whether the format it was written in is still comprehensible could be a more pertinent question.
bluGill
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A fair number only fragments remain. Probably most, though I'm not an archaeologist.
ChuckNorris89
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The ones where the cavemen forgot to engrave checksum data.
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