[game_preservation] Game disc wear questions

[Andrew Armstrong]

Don't personally burnt disks have a really low life (especially if not 
stored correctly) due to the dye they use or whatever? (Probably 
wikipedia has an answer :) ). I am sure there needs to be some kind of 
reflective layer to read anything though, yeah. People who scratch the 
*top* of disks accidentally can render them unusable!

Andrew

Devin Monnens wrote:

> Sure, you can use that. This is just a sampling of 100 discs and is 

> based on my personal experience. I don't have an adequate explanation 

> for the dust or film on the discs though, especially the ones that I 

> had purchased new. 

>

> I'll try and do a little more detailed analysis of the discs, as I 

> noticed some of my burnt CD-R's are fading as well. If you can see 

> through the disc, then it's completely unreadable, right?

>

> On Sat, Dec 19, 2009 at 7:41 AM, Andrew Armstrong 

> <andrew at aarmstrong.org <mailto:andrew at aarmstrong.org>> wrote:

>

>     Wow, great first hand information rather then guesswork Devin! :)

>

>     Someone has contacted us recently about the lifetime of floppy

>     disks. Can I put this up almost vertabim in a reference page on

>     the IGDA wiki? I should start putting up some of the information

>     people keep posting about media and how it fails over time (noting

>     there is a section in our white paper on it too, which I'll also

>     reuse).

>

>     Andrew

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