[cdr]

I've always only bought Taiyo Yuden media since ~2000. Every CD-R and DVD-R I still have that I've tried is still readable.

Taiyo Yuden at least used to be white labeled sometimes, so you'd just look up online what white-label media at Best Buy or CompUSA at the time was Taiyo Yuden.

I haven't burned a disc in probably close to a decade at this point though. SpiderOak is my backup.

[HankB99]

I think I have a lifetime supply of TY media. I hardly ever use it. I don't even know if it is CD or DVD. I'd have to look. I wonder if there is a shelf life for the media before it is recorded.

I'm in the spinning rust camp. I use the ZFS filesystem which protects against bit rot and I usually migrate to larger drives every several years. And I have an off site mirror of my local storage. My only concern is what happens to it when I'm no longer able to manage it. I guess I need to leave instructions.