Not sure where you’re from, but that website link is Australian and $150 AUD is about $94 USD at the moment.
500gb for $150 is a little bit pricy for me tbh. I don’t think I’d ever need something quite so long lasting and will we even watch or interact with media the same way in like 40 years? Movies and screens may get phased out for holo or something no ones even dreamed of yet.
Ilovethebomb@lemm.ee 1 month ago
If the burner is cheap enough, or you can borrow one, backing up family photos in a way that will be viewable in hundreds of years time would be worth it to me.
FlyingSquid@lemmy.world 1 month ago
I would not even be confident that the disc would be readable in 50 years’ time except by certain archivists or hobbyists.
There are so many hours of music people wrote on Amigas or Atari STs that are just floating around out there on floppy discs that are still readable by a small number of people, so they will never be heard again, and it’s been only 30 years.
SkunkWorkz@lemmy.world 1 month ago
This is why you add a disc reader and a laptop that can run directly from a power brick without a battery installed in the safe. This way the next generation has a way to read it and transfer it to modern media.
burgersc12@mander.xyz 1 month ago
I have like 3 pictures I actually care about anymore I’d be more than willing to delete the rest. My parents have always taken like at least a dozen pictures every time we “do something” and I always have to ask… Why drop everything you are doing for a picture that you will, in all likelihood, never look at again. I’d much
Blue_Morpho@lemmy.world 1 month ago
Because in 20 years your memory will be lost. But you’ll run across the photo and it will be incredible. It will both remind you and fill in the gaps that your memory lost.
I have all the best photos of my kids printed every year into a photo album. I don’t trust digital despite having 3 copies. My 100 year azzo verbatim DVDs kept in black cases in the basement went bad after 10 years. Mdisc on paper should actually last 100 unlike azzo but I don’t trust it either.
Eagle0110@lemmy.world 1 month ago
What exactly happened to the DVDs in the basement? That’s really interesting, indeed DVDs also claimed 100+ years of life span, but as you can see that’s only the theoretical maximal in perfect conditions, which don’t exist in real life, and the same thing happened to your DVDs can happen to Blu-Ray disks too
burgersc12@mander.xyz 1 month ago
That might be the case, but I haven’t cared about taking photos for over 25 years, not sure having kids would change any of that.
Cataphract@lemmy.ml 1 month ago
lol I don’t think you’re the target demographic if you can’t imagine any scenario of this having a good purpose to exist. It’s apparently rated by the Department of Defense, definitely has some applications people are interested in. Hell, you could recoup costs on harddrive failures alone over your child’s lifetime, just need a reader. Would be a pretty neat present to give someone as well filled like a photo album with personal media/ favorite games/ music/ whatever you want backed up for your kids. People spend a lot of money on multiple backup options so this is just another ace in your deck along with other safeguards.
burgersc12@mander.xyz 1 month ago
True, I’m no data hoarder. Just seems like it’s a very small niche that this fits into. Never had a hard drive fail on me, but I’ll give it a couple more decades lol
MonkderVierte@lemmy.ml 1 month ago
Not without a disk drive that runs scrambled data decoding (BD+) in a VM on top of decryption (AACS), according to the (reverse engineered) DRM spec of bluray.
wiki.archlinux.org/title/Blu-ray
philpo@feddit.org 1 month ago
None of that is relevant to a self burned M/Archive BD
MonkderVierte@lemmy.ml 1 month ago
They don’t hold that long.
dustyData@lemmy.world 1 month ago
If you’re encrypting and scrambling your own personal data and not properly saving the keys, that L is on you dog.