Just don't use a sharpie pen to write labels on your disks. I did this on some CD-ROMs I used to backup some digital video and 2 years later the disk was badly corrupted. When you write on the silvery label you're actually writing on the back of the recording medium. The solvents from the sharpie leak right through the thin layer and corrupt the data.
Printing out labels or using a special pen made for labeling CD's and keeping the Cd's out of the sun will help the data remain secure.
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Just don't use a sharpie pen to write labels on your disks. I did this on some CD-ROMs I used to backup some digital video and 2 years later the disk was badly corrupted. When you write on the silvery label you're actually writing on the back of the recording medium. The solvents from the sharpie leak right through the thin layer and corrupt the data. Printing out labels or using a special pen made for labeling CD's and keeping the Cd's out of the sun will help the data remain secure.