Comment on Sony will cut around 250 jobs from the recordable media business manufacturing hub and will gradually cease production of optical discs, including Blu-ray discs.

• A_Random_Idiot@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

  I’ve never had a CD/DVD R last more than a year anyway, even when using expensive media and slow burn speeds. So its not exactly archival.

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  • gardylou@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

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    • 0x0@programming.dev ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

      Agree its not great for very long term storage though.

      What would be?

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      • bloodfart@lemmy.ml ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

        Magnetic disks. The person who said ssds hasn’t tried it. Spinning magnetic disks lose their data much more slowly than any ssd cell.

        Even 3.5” floppies do better than ssds.

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      • ICastFist@programming.dev ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

        Right now, probably typical computer SSD disks. Anything lasting more than that usually steps in office/corporate solutions, like magnetic tape backups

        Googling around, I found out there are some “archival grade gold” DVDs, and a M-DISC (available as DVD or BluRay) that claims to last “centuries”. Haven’t seem anything on scratch or dust resistance about either

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  • ZiemekZ@lemmy.world ⁨6⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

    Which brand do you use? Not a single Verbatim has ever failed me, neither DVD nor Blu-ray. I also use a full-size burner with 12V SATA-USB adapter, not those stupid “slim” ones.

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  • TGTX@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

    Thank god M-Disc exists.

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    • ZiemekZ@lemmy.world ⁨6⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

      Doesn’t matter that much for Blu-rays since they’re non-organic anyway. It mattered more for DVDs since they use organic dyes, but I couldn’t find any M-Disc DVDs in Poland.

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• piccolo@ani.social ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

  Except it’s time consuming and requires you to get up and physically insert the disc. Plus off hdd, you can easily stream it anywhere…

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