When do CD-R's go bad?

[5489]

if i burn a cd right now...will i be able to use this cd many many years from now?

 

[RossMAN]

I would make sure it's a CD manufactured by Taiyo Yuden (Made in Japan, these are usually Fujifilm or TDK brand names), the CD should be stored in a CD jewel case when not in use, away from direct sunlight in a room temperature environment.

 

[5489]

they would all be in a CD wallet. the cool bubblesleeves

 

[bonk102]

what's the average, 4-8 years or something like that?

 

[KennyTheGreat]

well
i have this cd here
kinda taken care of in bad condition but it's been 5 long years now and it still works great

 

[Sir Fredrick]

CD-Rs are a lot like people. They go bad when they have too much power.

I also hear that Fox is doing a special soon, "When CD-Rs go bad." Should answer all your questions.

 

[yakko]

I can't wait until the Fox special. Will John Bunnel be hosting it?

 

[luvya]

I think they have the same lifespam as any other commercial CDs. I know you can argue that from some technical point...but really, if you take care of it like the $15 CD you buy from store...I don't see why it would only last few months or few years.

 

[silverpig]

Yeah, I helped produce that FOX special. We microwave the bad CD-Rs

 

[5489]

when is that fox special gonna be on air?

 

[Skyclad1uhm1]

<< Yeah, I helped produce that FOX special. We microwave the bad CD-Rs >>


Doh! was just about to tell him CD-Rs go bad when you microwave them!

 

[polypterus]

Has anyone ever even had a CD-R go bad? I keep hearing people being afraid of it happening, but have never encountered it. I've got CD-R's from back when they were called CD-WORM's and they're fine.

Anyway I "heard" that they have a shelf life of good ones are like 100 years or so... the lowest estimate of the cheapo ones are like 5 years.

dc

 

[max105]

Some of my CompUSA brand cd's have gone bad. They used to read fine, but some of them are really giving my two cd drives a hard time.

 

[Jerboy]

I've had some cheap ass CD that spontaneously became unreadable after eight month or so even though it was perfectly readable immediately after it was burned :\

 

[gwlam12]

Sometimes, the shiny stuff peels off. Those were on Philips CD-RWs.

Out of the 80 CompUSA CDs I've burned, only one has gone bad in the last year.

 

[Jerboy]

<< Sometimes, the shiny stuff peels off. Those were on Philips CD-RWs.

Out of the 80 CompUSA CDs I've burned, only one has gone bad in the last year. >>



CD-R's doesn't usually give you a second chance. When you drop a regular CD, you might chip the edge or otherwise partially damage the disc. Once I dropped a CD on a curb and it's hit the curb. The top coating de-laminated from the edge that got hit and completely destroyed the whole disc.

 

[Miramonti]

CD-R's have a long lifespan although usually don't last after you get married.

Then your wife is going to want to use your money to buy some real coasters.

 

[DAWeinG]

I've had a couple of cdrs that wouldn't read on multiple drives. If you ever have this problem, try right clicking on the cd drive the cdr is in and go to properties, then click on the volume tab and click the populate button and that should fix it. If that doesn't work then the cdr is just about dead. I once had a cd of which part of the coating was chipping but my cd rom drive was able to read it up until the damaged part. In other words, I was only able to retrieve the data up to where the layer started peeling.

 

[IGBT]

They all self destruct in the year 2121.

 

[dude]

Dude, in 5 years from now, we will be using 3 inch cd's that holds about 500 gigs per disk because of the constant advancement of the lasers.

Plus, that data off your cd will be obsolete as all data and knowledge is plugged into your frontal lobes via firewire 8.0 and you just sync with internet version 4.8