According to manufacturers, CD-Rs should last for decades. Some even quoted an upper limit of 120 years based on accelerated aging tests! That sure is a long time, isn't it? But will CD-Rs really last that long? In this update, we added 154 additional CD-Rs dating from 1999 till 2003, and revised the article to reflect the updated results. Read more at TechARP.
Checked Your CD-Rs Lately?
Posted on Thursday, August 06 2009 @ 6:31 CEST by Thomas De Maesschalck
According to manufacturers, CD-Rs should last for decades. Some even quoted an upper limit of 120 years based on accelerated aging tests! That sure is a long time, isn't it? But will CD-Rs really last that long? In this update, we added 154 additional CD-Rs dating from 1999 till 2003, and revised the article to reflect the updated results. Read more at TechARP.