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Im just a dude watching over my parents,
and trying to make cartoons and video games from home.

CDs, DVDs and Blu Rays are Not Forever!

Important!

Dear visitors,

This blog and the Tigarus.com network will be changing our website software in May (2024). There will be some down time and there will be a change to the webpage addresses.

We will also be removing the Anime blogs. The Rocksmith Songs website will be unavailable of a few weeks or months while I move the database to the new software.

At the moment we are running on Wordpress, the new software is an in-house project which is 57 times faster. It will also provide more freedom for development.

Thank you for understanding.

, By Patcoola

So how does this happen, the answer is that discs are not forever. The theoretical life span of a disc is 36 years, however, this is under special storage conditions. In my experience with CDs and DVDs, I am lucky if the disc lasts over four years without routing.

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Scratches and finger prints really don’t affect discs much, but rout is a hidden and silent threat to discs.

A disc is basically two layers of plastic pressed together, in-between this plastic are small holes making ones and zeros in-which the laser reads.

Routing and chipping occurs when the space between the plastic grows something that is not air. The heat from the laser, the moisture in the air and rapid cooling of the disc makes the disc brittle.

Discs do not last forever, they will break or rout. Do not rely on discs to backup your data.

 

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