PCWorld takes a look at why ‘Good Discs Go Bad,’ and finds some interesting nuggets, including information about which discs work best with which drive (quick answer: who knows?), and a proposed system of grading of optical media so that consumers can have a better idea before they purchase how long their media will actually last. Sure, the manufacturers say 60 – 100 years, but they said clay tablets were going to last 6,000 years, but many of mine started flaking around 3,000 or so.
Also interesting: apparently ‘disc rot’ — the process where the physical substrate of the discs would start to oxidize — is pretty much a non-issue these days.
Read [PCWorld]
