Storage Cabinets

When I say "unsafe" I mean will the metal cabinetry cause any form of corruption to the DVDs? I currently keep them in vinyl sleeves in plastic fliptop boxes that hold about 50 DVDs. My collection is expanding rapidly and it doesn’t seem quite cost efficient to keep buying these plastic storage bins (to say nothing about having a suitable place to store them once they are full). I have a steel library catalogue card cabinet I could use for storage but was worried it might somehow corrupt the information on the DVD. May seem like a silly question but I know my limitations on computer tech stuff too. TIA

No, DVDs in close contact with metal, magnetic or not, will not corrupt them.

Although if you sliding the disks surface against the metal causing scratches, then the disk might become unreadable after awhile

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