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TheImpressiveX@lemmy.ml 2 months agoBacking up personal data, mostly stuff from my childhood that is irreplacable. Sure, I could just put them on a HDD, but then I’d have to replace it every 5-10 years. Data stored on Blu-ray can last a long time.
fuckwit_mcbumcrumble@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 months ago
Data on hard drives also generally lasts a long time. Much longer than 5-10 years.
And make sure you’re constantly monitoring those discs, disc rot is very much a thing for all optical medica.
ag10n@lemmy.world 2 months ago
MDiscs are ISO rated for hundreds to thousands of years.
ecma-international.org/…/ECMA-379_3rd_edition_jun…
fuckwit_mcbumcrumble@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 months ago
Rated for, but that doesn’t mean they’re all actually manufactured to that standard.
CDs were rated for like 50+ years originally I think. We found out real quick that was an optimistic number, especially when you buy the cheapest thing around.
circuscritic@lemmy.ca 2 months ago
ISO certification does require a bit more effort than just the bare minimum necessary to legally advertise specific claims about a product.
That doesn’t mean some M-Disc manufacturing is immune to shitty business practices of the manufacturer, but they do have to meet certain manufacturing specifications.
ag10n@lemmy.world 2 months ago
The international organization for standardization has rated them for archival use in the hundreds of years. This is not a maybe and the Wikipedia page/link I shared above goes over the testing methodology
obinice@lemmy.world 2 months ago
Assuming the drive spins back up after being left in a cupboard for 15 years, if you’re still even able to find a computer compatible with whatever cables it used back then. But yeah.
orangeboats@lemmy.world 2 months ago
If proper SATA ever goes away, I’d wager that there will still be SATA-to-USB adapters on sale. Heck, people still find ways to connect floppy drives to their modern PCs.
fuckwit_mcbumcrumble@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 months ago
Whose to say you’d have a computer compatible with the disc and the drive in 15 years?
And even if the platters are irreparably stuck you could go to a data recovery service and still pull the files off that way.