It would be fun to test, there’s still a big disc wallet buried somewhere in the (hot and occasionally humid) garage, undoubtedly including some of those 20 year old ones. Worst possible storage conditions for recordable media.
The larger issue however is there is no longer a single device in the house capable of reading one, and hasn’t been for a number of years.
Also a significant fraction of them were Linux install media. Not in the modern nudge-nudge-wink-wink-we’re-really-talking-piracy-here “Linux ISOs” sense, but actual Linux ISOs, which would be used a couple of times (maybe even only once) then discarded once superseded by a newer version.
It would be at least another couple of years after that period in history before I could afford a) sufficient hard drive space to not have to burn and delete things straight away after downloading them and b) flash drive(s) large enough to do away with optical media for that use case.
It would be fun to test, there’s still a big disc wallet buried somewhere in the (hot and occasionally humid) garage, undoubtedly including some of those 20 year old ones. Worst possible storage conditions for recordable media.
The larger issue however is there is no longer a single device in the house capable of reading one, and hasn’t been for a number of years.
Also a significant fraction of them were Linux install media. Not in the modern nudge-nudge-wink-wink-we’re-really-talking-piracy-here “Linux ISOs” sense, but actual Linux ISOs, which would be used a couple of times (maybe even only once) then discarded once superseded by a newer version.
It would be at least another couple of years after that period in history before I could afford a) sufficient hard drive space to not have to burn and delete things straight away after downloading them and b) flash drive(s) large enough to do away with optical media for that use case.