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Unrelated but... having lived through the 00's I always found writable CDs and DVDs to be such a shit unreliable tech. It always seemed like discs might work ok with some drives but not others, or just stop working after a few weeks, and they really didn't seem tolerant to even minor scratches. Just awful.
I have hundreds of burned discs that work fine. If you bought cheap discs you got what you paid for.
I've heard this a million times.
I certainly never bought the cheapest discs. It's been a decade but I think it was verbatim usually.
Verbatim varied quite a bit along its range of products and over time. Some of it was the best on the market while other stuff was absolute garbage.