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Twenty percent of hard drives used for long-term music storage in the 90s have failed (www.tomshardware.com)

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Hard drives from the last 20 years are now slowly dying.

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[–] mark3748 3 points 2 months ago

Pressed optical disks, yes. Dye-based writable and re-writable do not last very long at all.

Depending on the disc, they can last anywhere from 5 to over 100 years. The over 100 year ones are (were?) marketed as archival, and only CD-R. Do not trust any random writable disc to survive very long.

I tested some backup DVDs from 2012 a couple of months ago and they were completely unreadable.