• TheImpressiveX@lemmy.ml
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    4 months ago

    Don’t fret, Verbatim will still be making recordable BD-Rs. However, this will mean that there will be no more 128GB BD-Rs, we’ll be stuck with only 100GB BD-Rs (Sony is the only company that makes 128GB Blu-rays).

    I recently ordered a pack of 128GBs from Japan. I’d recommend you do the same, because the prices are gonna skyrocket.

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        4 months ago

        Backing 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.

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          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.

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              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.

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                4 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

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                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 all M-Disc manufacturing is immune to shitty business practices of a manufacturer, but they do have to meet certain manufacturing specifications.

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            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.

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              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.

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              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.

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      For the price of 128GB BD-Rs you would probably benefit from buying an LTO-5+ drive.

      I wish I could afford an LTO-9 drive, but $5K is a bit steep. $90 per 45TB for media is phenomenal though.

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      4 months ago

      Will this mean PS5 games in coming years would come in two disks?

      Update: never mind they were always using 100 gb