Hey all you extreme sharky dudes, here's a weird question for ya:

What temperature does a CD-R melt at? Example: I put some valueable data (like, oh, say taxes) on a CD-R and store it in a fire-safe. How hot does it have to get before my data is toast (no pun intended)?

My old recollection is that "vinyl melts before paper burns." But that's for floppies and DAT, where the surface recorded on is a vinyl with a ferro-oxide coating. A fire safe is not good to store these in, because it's designed to keep temperatures below the combustion point of paper (451 deg. F), and floppies will melt way before that.

So I'm curious if anyone has updated data on CDs, CD-Rs, CD-RW, CD+RW and DVD-whatnot that you kids use to store all your illegal music on these days. A little research on my part reveals that CD-+RWs have an especially low melting point, because they are designed to be melted by a laser in the burner, but I haven't found yet what this temerpature really is.