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NewEgg.com has the RiDATA 700MB 52X CD-R 100 Packs Cake Box Disc for $15 with free shipping. A good price on good media for those who need to burn some CDs. Long storage acceleration tests guarantee storage for more than 100 years.
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The (AZO?) Dye they use on this is rated for 100 years retention. However the assembly may degrade before that due to humidity, and UV light, and heat. ie data film from acrylic will flake off.
In STP Standard temp and atmosphereic pressure they may last 100 years. But none of us use these things in ideal conditions anyway. Usually car, gym, coffee mug coaster...
In standard storage I find them to last closer to 10 years than 100. IE, those I made about 10 years ago are starting to shelf rot and you're right #1, it is the clear layer on top over the metal that degrades, subjecting the metal to oxidation. In other discs I'd consider defective, UV light degraded the dye, but dye failures were a fewer % of failures for those I saw.
To me the more important question is how long can they sit on a shelf before being used to burn the data without degradation. We used to see constant deals for 50 and 100 packs of CDR for free after rebate, so I still have hundreds if not thousands of discs waiting to be used if I ever find a point to using 700MB media instead of a flash drive, redundant mirrored hard drives, or DVDR. Well there is one use still, in systems I put FAR CDRW drives in, it's a pity DVDRW drives and media aren't now FAR like CDRW were.
No free shipping on these CDs; free shipping deal is on the RiDATA DVDs also from Newegg. (Unfortunately this is YANBFB.)
NO FREE SHIPPING!!!