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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] 18 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago) (10 children)

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

[–] [email protected] -1 points 4 months ago (9 children)

Sounds pricey. Discs are cheap.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 4 months ago (7 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] 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.

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