I’m sure that was the original idea behind using caddies.
But it turns out that scratches can be avoided if you are careful, and more importantly, a few scratches hardly prevent the disc being read thanks to the error correction being pretty good.
Back in the day I used one of those AOL internet sign-up junk discs as a drinks coaster for several years. As you’d expect from grinding around on my desk it was dirty and scratched to total hell, never mind the thermal stress of hundreds of hot tea mugs being sat on it. I’d never seen a CD looking so bad.
One day out of curiosity I decided to wipe it off and put it in the PC to see what would happen. I was genuinely surprised when the AOL splash popped up (and also a little disgusted because I had no love for AOL and was hoping I’d killed it)
tiramichu@lemm.ee 1 day ago
I’m sure that was the original idea behind using caddies.
But it turns out that scratches can be avoided if you are careful, and more importantly, a few scratches hardly prevent the disc being read thanks to the error correction being pretty good.
Back in the day I used one of those AOL internet sign-up junk discs as a drinks coaster for several years. As you’d expect from grinding around on my desk it was dirty and scratched to total hell, never mind the thermal stress of hundreds of hot tea mugs being sat on it. I’d never seen a CD looking so bad.
One day out of curiosity I decided to wipe it off and put it in the PC to see what would happen. I was genuinely surprised when the AOL splash popped up (and also a little disgusted because I had no love for AOL and was hoping I’d killed it)
rottingleaf@lemmy.world 1 day ago
A few won’t. I have a disc that looks as if it was tested with hot needles many times just for fun.