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by buttercraft 557 days ago
> Data on CDs/DVDs should remain recoverable for millenia (properly stored, even readable).

If by "properly stored" you mean in a cold, dark vacuum, then maybe. Otherwise this is not true in my experience. I've had CD's in temperature controlled storage for 25 years and about 1 on 10 are unreadable. It's my understanding that they oxidize. In theory gold CD'S are immune to that.