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Comment on CD sales are making an unexpected comeback amid a retro tech boom
nymnympseudonym@piefed.social 15 hours ago
REMINDER: CDs degrade over time and eventually become unreadable.
- Burned CD-R’s can last as little as 5-10 years(!)
- CD-RW discs generally last 20–50 years
- Factory-pressed CDs generally last 50 years
Rip your disks to your permanent HDD storage, which ofc should be on a RAID mirror and backed up regularly. Always store a copy in a separate location in case of fire/flood/etc.
I LOVE YOU AND WANT YOU TO OWN YOUR DATA FOREVER!
SourDragon@lemmy.world 14 hours ago
Pixel_Jock_17@piefed.ca 8 hours ago
I have my original CD-RW.
I’ve saved a copy (HDD) of all my library onto an external hard drive that I’ve lost in the move.
I have a second copy on my PC (SSD) that I have operational.
Then my old laptop (HDD) has my original library and thats lost somewhere at my parents home (remote location)
Am I doing this right!??
bigbangdangler@reddthat.com 4 hours ago
Thank you for doing the lord’s work.
I love that physical media is getting new life, but CDs are not archival in nature. It’s a drastically different problem from not owning anything, but I don’t want unreadable CDs to push people back to streaming.
I’ll also mention that a major benefit of vinyl records – despite cracks and pops and quality turntables being generally expensive – is that they are so dirt simple as to be effectively immune from similar issues. Not trying to sway opinions at all, but as physical media goes, it still exists for a reason.
Personally, I have both CDs and vinyl. And tapes!