Hi, I'm currently in a purge phase, and trying to get rid of some old CD's. I have some old video games that I'd like to keep and create an ISO of, so I can virtually "mount" if I want to use them ...

If you, like us, came of age during the CD era and consequently have a huge CD collection, there's bad news: the format may not be as indestructable as you once ...

But bit rot is a real thing, as YouTuber EposVox points out in a recent video.Like other forms of physical media before them, optical discs can suffer from degradation. Commercially produced discs ...

CD and DVD Owners Finding Techno-Rot. May 10, 2004. By Peter Svensson. ... Some of the discs, which he always took good care of, wouldn't play properly. Koster, ...

The phenomenon, called "CD rot," can ruin a disc in as few as five years. The problem can show up visibly on the disc, appearing as though crystals are growing or the CD is bronzing, or changing ...

People crave control and certainty in life, though, and as such, a name for this problem has been created: disc rot. It's a condition that is real enough to have its own Wikipedia page, which ...

DVDs might be a thing of the past, but if you're someone who kept your collection, you'll want to check if they've fallen victim to disc rot -- especially if they are titles distributed by Warner ...

How many CDs have you got? If you're a regular reader of these pages the answer is most likely a lot. And you'll have plenty of boxed sets and multiple CD sets too. This means that some discs in ...

The above 2021 video from YouTuber Damn Fool Idealistic Crusader that Ars points to suggests disc rot is affecting a broader range of discs, from 2006 to 2009, than WB has acknowledged. As for ...

Write-once memory card offers tamper-proof, long-term data storage TeamGroup’s 256GB D500R WORM SD card can store up to 374 CDs’ worth of data Built-in protection features guard against power ...

Hold CD up to the light and you’ll likely spot tiny pin pricks in the metal layer or what looks like a coffee spill on the disc’s surface. The music on that dope mix is not long for this world.