>>8147506Yeah, discs will rot eventually, but like i said here
>>8143622 and this picture shows lifespan storage media.jpg that shit can last for up to a hundred years.
Living in a tropical climate is pretty damaging for anything.
And it really does suck when you are too lazy to back shit up.
I lost some valuable shit, personal stuff, on zip disks that went bad. I knew i should have backed that shit up sooner, because a few had already gone bad already.
I've gotten pretty complacent with my DVD-R back ups though. It's been a while since i tried to back those up........
I mean, i use my 90s CD-Rs as a standard as to how other discs SHOULD hold up too... but not everything is created equally.
I know that some of the glues on PSX games did have problems which led to them rotting easier. Same shit can happen with any discs.
>>8147485>he doesn't know that digital can eventually "rot"One of the biggest ways to notice this is with digital music files.
Stuff like FLAC uses lossless compression, while MP3 is 'lossy'. What this means is that for each year the MP3 sits on your hard drive, it will lose roughly 12kbps, assuming you have SATA - it's about 15kbps on IDE, but only 7kbps on SCSI, due to rotational velocidensity. You don't want to know how much worse it is on CD-ROM or other optical media.
I started collecting MP3s in about 2001, and if I try to play any of the tracks I downloaded back then, even the stuff I grabbed at 320kbps, they just sound like crap. The bass is terrible, the midrange…well don’t get me started. Some of those albums have degraded down to 32 or even 16kbps. FLAC rips from the same period still sound great, even if they weren’t stored correctly, in a cool, dry place. Seriously, stick to FLAC, you may not be able to hear the difference now, but in a year or two, you’ll be glad you did.
