Comment on As Sony exits, Verbatim doubles down on optical media — stable supply of discs is a "top priority" despite shrinking market

• Croquette@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

  Nothing stops people from mix matching backup media.

  If I lose the series I downloaded versus my family photos, not the same impact.

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• Ilovethebomb@lemm.ee ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

  The fuck are you backing up that you have 20tb of?

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  • mostlikelyaperson@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

    Also I feel like at that point you might as well go tape rather than fiddle around with 40 Blu-rays.

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    • Ilovethebomb@lemm.ee ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

      I mean, tapes just don’t have the same longetivity as an archive grade optical disc, but it’s probably fine for your collection of porn and pirated movies.

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      • mostlikelyaperson@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

        Not wrong, but 30 years are probably good enough for most backup cases

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  • fmstrat@lemmy.nowsci.com ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

    Photographer, videographer mostly, buy also data hoarder, etc. I still have all my pre-AOL data, too.

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