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Shadow1980 said:

Yeah. Rewritable/recordable discs are known to not have nearly the longevity of a regular pressed disc like you find movies & music on. Barring any manufacturing defects, a standard CD, DVD, or Blu-ray will last many decades if you take care of it properly. I have CDs that are 30 years old and still play fine.

All my music-CDs from the early 80s (and later) still read without problems.

Just for fun, I checked some of my CD-W with 1980s data backups. All read without problems.