Your data is ROTTING AWAY!

Don't let your CD & DVD archives sit another DAY without getting them backed up in a better way.
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00:00 The Clock is ticking
00:18 Disc imaging w/ IMGBurn
00:44 Why CD-Rs & DVD-Rs are rotting away
01:41 Optical drives!
02:43 File transfer optimizations
03:29 My Pandemic Projects
03:53 Imaging vs File Copies
04:16 Windows Defender vs DOS & old files
05:31 Ripping music CDs w/ Exact Audio Copy (EAC)
05:46 Ripping Photo discs
05:59 Ripping DVDs, BluRays & VideoCDs
06:37 Nostalgic memories contained within
07:28 Disc storage important notes
07:59 Patterns noticed in my family's backups
08:23 Using discs for backups in 2022
08:46 File organization for future backups!
09:46 3-2-1 Backup Rule PLS!

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[wrightd]

Any plans to reupload the companion video?

[TemporaryTemporary-yj]

I managed to make a backup of an obscure software CD disc that had begun to rot and the first thing I did was to upload the "iso" Image to *The Internet Archive* as well as *Vetusware.*
I also made it part of a bigger software collection that I burnt to two separate Blu-Ray *M-discs* .
I'm so glad that there are now many people making a concerted effort to make backups of their old discs lying around. Who knows, one of your old discs may hold something of immense value to someone out

[JYMBO]

Your timing is impeccable... i'm a DJ currently transitioning from CD's to Laptop & have been desperately searching for a better way to get all my music on to my laptop & also backup my entire music catalog, EAC is looking like the best option!

[Left-Earth]

As a teenager in the late 90's, I remember burning CD backups of our complete set of roms for the NES and SNES.
*We kept thinking someday Nintendo would take them off the internet. and they did.*
_Y'all better backup those GameCube and Wii discs now!_ 😂

[Jokrono]

I'm currently neck-deep in trying to save about 8000 CDs from my workplace's collection that dates back to the mid 90s. A lot of rare music in there from some interesting local artists that disappeared before music went online. A timely video!

[csamd]

Discs are actually scratch-resistant and it is impossible to lose information due to scratches. On discs stored in any packaging, there is simply no place for scratches to appear. Even discs that have been lying unpacked for 20 years and are heavily scratched can be read without problems on good drives, sometimes with a loss of speed, but they can be read. if the scratches are already too critical, then they can be sanded.

[wildmanjeff]

Thanks for the video, I went to all SSD/HDD with multiple backups many years ago, but sometimes come across an old DVD cant read. The program information will help a lot-- great video !

[BKDDY]

I remember putting some of my SegaCD games up to the light and it was full of tiny little pinholes.
Sucks :(

[TheRealHarrypm]

Fun fact 1 standard VHS-C/Video8/Hi8 camcorder tape (RF captured at 40msps & compressed with Flac) will fit on an 100GB BDXL M-Disk alongside an decode package and relating information etc.

[wrightd]

I’ve just now started this process, and was not prepared for just how many would have errors. Almost all of my DVD-Rs are fine, but the CD-Rs are severely hit or miss. I have a bunch of drives to try if I really need to, but I’m not hopeful it’ll make a huge difference.

I also would’ve expressed the importance of checking Isobuster for old sessions. Obviously for once written backups, it’s not important, but for CDs used like a flash drive, you can find some good stuff.

[sergeleon]

I don't know if I'm either lucky or disc rot is very unlikely, as I've burned tons of discs since early 90's and from those none of them have suffered from such. I had access to a Philips CD writer since 1993 which costed like $5000 back than and empty disc went between $50-100 depending if them came with cradle or not and on coating used.

[DerekTurtleRoe]

I wanted to add that backing up video game console optical media can be done easily and accurately with the MPF GUI for DiscImageCreator. Its used by No—intro and Redump to dump optical media accurately and reliably. Great video! 😃

[Bowdon]

I have trouble ripping dvd's with makemkv, though i think its the usb optical drive im using. Maybe I should try a different manufacturer.

[GuardianAngel..]

The Scratch-Less Discs You know the ones with the protective Aero-Bumps on the bottom of the Disc last for a long time too.

[joeglennaz]

I know this video is a year old, but I’m just coming around to getting all of my CDR’s and DVDs and wanting to put them in digital media. One thing I do not understand is the difference in a image and just copying the people talk about them like they’re one in the same same but yet they’re two different things, and I don’t understand it.

[DanielSRosehill]

My man! On the same day my first batch of M-Discs arrive you come out with a video about data rot? What are the chances?! Also happen to be a Curiosity Stream fan. What can I say. Cool to meet another 0.001% of the population that gives more than a second's thought to the miracle of data storage and doesn't believe that "the cloud" is a guaranteed failsafe against data degredation.

[newphilmz]

Some people are in denial because it hasn't happened to their discs yet. But I'm starting to see the effects slowly over the years. Burned discs like my mixtapes are degrading in quality and some becoming unreadable. These are from 2004ish so they're almost 20 years old. Also avoid sticky labels as the glue damages the data. Those were the first to go.

[ScottGrammer]

Great video. I've been using ImageBurn, EAC, Teracopy, and "some other software you might have named" for years. Edge rot on pressed disks is a real thing, and it can move rather quickly once it starts. Big hard drives are cheap right now, so save that data!

[notanimufailzone]

Teracopy has one other advatage. If Windows Explorer crashes which it always tends to do during long file transfers for me, then it runs as a process on it's own and you don't lose the progress or end up with a corrupt file.

[Shivaho]

I Sadly discovered that Putting a custom Label on burned discs ruined them & made them Unreadable.