On: Withdrawal from the Recording Media Business

[gst]

> that many lower cost discs are prone to fail after rather short time of storage

If you're looking for CD-Rs that will last longer than average I suggest M-DISC, which according to the manufacturer should last up to 1000 years (compared to 7 years for regular CD-Rs): https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/M-DISC

[PythonicAlpha → gst]

Yes, looks like a good solution for archival purposes. The price-surplus is rather big -- so for many usages, I would still want my TYs.