Blu ray for storage

[happylacquer]

I have been waiting for blu ray writers to get to a reasonable price for a while. After forgetting about them almost entirely, I checked amazon, 49 on prime and 15 bucks for 50 discs giving me abit over a TB of backup. Cool.

How is blu ray for long term storage? I have  a lot of stuff that is just on tons of HD, SSD and usb drives for fear of losing any of it. I have a lot of old dvd-r of backup stuff, those are all still fine after about 10 years...

[tp4tissue]

archival grade discs are not cheaper than buying equivalent Gigabytes on Harddrive.

So,  Just buy harddrives and rewrite all data every 3 to 5 years.

[pr0ximity]

What tp4 said, blu-ray aren't any more reliable than HDDs. If you want serious archival quality you'll need a tape drive.

[happylacquer]

What tp4 said, blu-ray aren't any more reliable than HDDs. If you want serious archival quality you'll need a tape drive.

I would actually do this if tape wasn't ridiculously expensive.

[captsis]

hdd is cheaper. also suggest Punched tape.

[happylacquer]

hdd is cheaper. also suggest Punched tape.

im down if you can find me a mp3 player that can read it

[tp4tissue]

hdd is cheaper. also suggest Punched tape.

im down if you can find me a mp3 player that can read it

that's alotta tape to carry,  probably midi though.

[noisyturtle]

Discs made of stone - the only real option
http://www.mdisc.com/

[tp4tissue]

Discs made of stone - the only real option
http://www.mdisc.com/

I don't think carbon film is stone.. buhhhhhhh..........

technically anything hard could be stone like ? hahahaha..


Also,  This is 1000 years rated UNDER certain conditions..  and idk if they provide integrity check to their discs,  so Technically a flipped bit here and there means you ARE sort of losing your data..


So it's still seems like a bull **** service praying on non-tech literate people.