• fuckwit_mcbumcrumble@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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    1 year ago

    Rated for, but that doesn’t mean they’re all actually manufactured to that standard.

    CDs were rated for like 50+ years originally I think. We found out real quick that was an optimistic number, especially when you buy the cheapest thing around.

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      1 year ago

      The international organization for standardization has rated them for archival use in the hundreds of years. This is not a maybe and the Wikipedia page/link I shared above goes over the testing methodology