Recordable CDs Unreliable After Two Years

If you're using CD-Rs to backup and archive your digital photos, you might be interested in the results of a study on CD-R reliability. CD-Recordable discs unreadable in less than two years [via Lockergnome]

The Dutch PC-Active magazine has done an extensive CD-R quality test. For the test the magazine has taken a look at the readability of discs, thirty different CD-R brands, that were recorded twenty months ago. The results were quite shocking as a lot of the discs simply couldn't be read anymore.

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