Article on data rot on CD's

John Foust jfoust at threedee.com
Thu Aug 5 17:48:00 CDT 2004


At 10:04 AM 8/5/2004, chris wrote:
>True, I hadn't thought about that angle of it. I suppose a CD or disk 
>will warp enough to ruin it long before paper starts to show signs of 
>heat damage.

I'm sure the dyes would degrade long before the plastic started 
to melt, if heated evenly.

- John





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