Same scenerio here. Once I saved a bunch of vacation photos from various years onto the CD-R media (with no other backup), and the CD died on me. I was so sad.
It was a live and learn thing, and I know not to do that again (or at least I'll make sure to have backup of backup now)
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gitsumjunkmail
I have had many of my early music cds that I burned go bad in just a couple of years. This was pretty low-quality media, but I imagine even better stuff will have problems over time.