In article , rednoise9
@REMOVETHIScomcast.net says...

On 30 Nov 2017, "Mayayana" wrote in
alt.windows7.general:

"NY" wrote

| I've had more CD/DVD discs go bad (unreadable) on me than I have
| hard discs.

I'm surprised that so many people say that. I've
*never* tried an old CD/DVD that I couldn't read. Last
week I was backing up email to a database, going
back 10 years. All the disks were fine.

Me, too. I have hundreds of CDRs and DVDRs and I could probably count
on one hand the number of them that have gone bad... and usually that's
because of physical damaged caused by me. I'm sure I've had
proportionally more hard disks go bad.

I've got 1000's of cds and dvds going back more than a decade now.
Everyone I've had need to "use" I've been able to read with only the
occassional disk requiring being put in a second or third reader before
it was properly seen. I ALWAYS verify burns. I trust them more than
backup drives and/or flash media. Mind you they're also properly stored.