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Say Goodbye To Your CD-Rs In Two Years?

Posted by timothy on from the mine-mostly-still-work dept.

Little Hamster writes "According to an article on cdfreaks.com, a test done by the Dutch PC-Active magazine showed that among 30 different CD-R brands tested, a lot of them were already unreadable after twenty months. This is shocking, and makes me wonder how should I backup my data, photo and music collection."

2 of 607 comments (clear)

  1. Re:Oh no! by borgdows · · Score: 0, Troll

    you'll know it when you'll have some hairs on you balls ;)

  2. Re:but something is missing... by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0, Troll
    Nero is the only mastering program I know of, which will verify cd-r contents after burning :-)
    What have you been sniffing?
    xcdroast and many others do verify content after burning.
    Windoze isn't the only thing around and there ain't any linux version of nero. Perhaps if you choices of cd burner programs are so limited it might be a clue that it should be time to think about a better operating system.