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I definitely agree with you. I feel like I see people talking about optical media rotting all the time and it just doesn't seem like a practical issue for 99% of use cases.
I seem to remember the conversation in the early 2000s being about how discs would rot in 50+ years and now I see people saying ten or 15.
the 50yr rot was for printed disks like music/videos/programs, the 10 or 15 was for burned media that uses a different tech. Still have another 25ish years before I can debunk that, I have a little over 100 music cds from different bands that I acquired over the years, but the oldest I have so far is from 1999 or 2k.
That makes sense. But I've got a wallet of burned CDs from the 90s that put the question to that 15 year timeline.
And these discs? They have not been treated well.