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I must have a perfect environment because DVDs I made 20 years ago still work. In my entire life I've probably had less than 20 become unusable. And I'm including ones that got scratched. If it was limited to actual disc rot it'd be in the single digits.

I can confirm, found an old disk from ~15 years ago, was excited to see what was on it. In a jewel case and everything, but completely unreadable :(

Reminder to plug in any flash media (thumb drives, ssds) from time to time

They can also start to lose data after a couple years without power

Still got a shelf full of 360 discs, I refuse to open them and hope that the cases they’re in protect them for life longer than mine.

A small handful of my burned CDs from 20 years ago are unbearable and as far as I can tell, none of my pressed CDs are. I'm sure they'll rot eventually but I think your average cd is quite robust. Still, there's no excuse not to have backups!

I still refuse to believe in disc rot until I see it happen to me. Until that occurs, I will consider it a urban computer myth.