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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. (mainichi.jp)

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[–] [email protected] 112 points 4 months ago (37 children)

the whole point is to stop you from owning physical media so they can arbitrarily raise prices by creating artificial cause and demand through artificial scarcity.

[–] [email protected] 24 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago) (12 children)

That makes this even more depressing. Sailing the high seas is the life for me.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 4 months ago (1 children)

But where to store it all now?

[–] [email protected] 18 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago) (1 children)

More hard drives. RAID, rotate them out when they fail, more backups too. lol

[–] [email protected] -1 points 4 months ago (2 children)

Sounds pricey. Discs are cheap.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 4 months ago (3 children)

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.

[+] [email protected] 3 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago) (1 children)

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[–] [email protected] 1 points 4 months ago (2 children)

Agree its not great for very long term storage though.

What would be?

[–] [email protected] 3 points 4 months 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.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 4 months 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

[–] [email protected] 2 points 4 months 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.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago) (1 children)

Thank your deity that M-Disc exists.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 4 months 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.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 4 months 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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