Subj : Re: floppy disks
To   : boraxman
From : Nightfox
Date : Mon Apr 28 2025 09:53 am

 Re: Re: floppy disks
 By: boraxman to Nightfox on Tue Apr 29 2025 02:05 am

bo> I once bought a spindle of cheap, no name disks.  They were duds, didn't
bo> last.

bo> I always purchased Verbatim, and on occasion TDK.  I have disks now 20+
bo> years old that are still find.  Only once, with one spindle of Verbatim
bo> disks, did I get a manufacturing defect, that resulted in a few failing
bo> after a year or two.

bo> Apart from that, which clearly was a manufacturing defect, CD-Rs and
bo> DVD-Rs have been rock-solid.

Yeah, I've seen people mention optical discs going bad (disc rot) but I can't say I've experienced that myself.  I still have one of the first DVD movies I ever bought (in 2000; and commercially made, not a DVD-R) and I just played it again last year and it was fine.

As far as CD-Rs and DVD-Rs, I generally haven't had a problem with those either.  I think TDK was one of the better brands.  I often saw a lot of Memorex CD-Rs and DVD-Rs in stores, but I wasn't confident in them anymore after a while and generally tried to look for other brands.

Nightfox
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