Comment on Sony is killing off recordable Blu-ray, bidding farewell to disc burning | TechSpot

UnderpantsWeevil@lemmy.world ⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

• Alexstarfire@lemmy.world ⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  A 200TB USB drive doesn’t exist. What are you talking about?

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  • AVincentInSpace@pawb.social ⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    Not going to put words in OP’s mouth, and it’s entirely possible they’re either exaggerating, talking about a RAID array, or richer than God,

    but the only place I know of to buy flash drives that big is Wish.com

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  • ayyy@sh.itjust.works ⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    whoooooooosh

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  • Etterra@lemmy.world ⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

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    • Alexstarfire@lemmy.world ⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      First, neither of those are USB. Second, I’d eat my house if this person has 2 of those SSDs.

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• suburban_hillbilly@lemmy.ml ⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  I use BD-R for archival storage of important files. They’re cheaper and easier than tape as well as small. I burn them in triplicate and throw them in the same case and as long as the same 3 bits don’t corrupt I can recover. The shelf life on a blue ray sealed and stored well is a few decades which is better than most other media.

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  • AVincentInSpace@pawb.social ⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    Where are you buying your Blu-rays? Every time I’ve looked into burnable BD-Rs they’ve been more expensive per gigabyte than a 3.5" hard drive (which has the bonus of better data longevity and being rewritable).

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  • UnderpantsWeevil@lemmy.world ⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    I understand that from a business perspective, but I’m having a hard time rationalizing it for personal use.

    I guess, if you’re doing a lot of video editing and you want to preserve a large personal library? Idk.

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    • suburban_hillbilly@lemmy.ml ⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      It’s mostly family photos and videos. I’ve become the de facto family digital archivist. Some digital copies of important phyiscal records. When you convert files to lossless/uncompressed formats suitable for long term storage they get large really quickly.

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• piyuv@lemmy.world ⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  How often do you lend your drives to your friends? A cheap way to send big files without internet connection was paramount for sharing information.

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  • UnderpantsWeevil@lemmy.world ⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    Very rarely. I tend to have shared text or Excel files to actively share and work on. Nothing in the hundreds of gigs.

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• 0x0@programming.dev ⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  Flash-style drives like SSDs and… drives from alliexpress aren’t recommended for long-term storage.

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