As Sony exits, Verbatim doubles down on optical media — stable supply of discs is a "top priority" despite shrinking market
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A few won't. I have a disc that looks as if it was tested with hot needles many times just for fun.
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I would not even be confident that the disc would be readable in 50 years' time except by certain archivists or hobbyists.
There are so many hours of music people wrote on Amigas or Atari STs that are just floating around out there on floppy discs that are still readable, but only by a very small number of people, so they will never be heard again, and it's been only 30 years.
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This is why you add a disc reader and a laptop that can run directly from a power brick without a battery installed in the safe. This way the next generation has a way to read it and transfer it to modern media.
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Burned DVDs use a dye that turned dark when hit with a laser. The dye was claimed to be stable for 100 years but wasn't. Mdisc is different and should last longer.
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If you're encrypting and scrambling your own personal data and not properly saving the keys, that L is on you dog.
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You should value yourself more. If you think it's important to have history passed down more than 20 years or whatever the average person remembers, then your own life should be as valuable to you.
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I can pass down stories much more valuable than a series of photos my kids will throw in the bin. My grandmother had huge photo albums, now she's gone and we just stuff them into the back of a closet.
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Ahh, didn't see the .au
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If only they weren't so expensive.
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They don't hold that long.
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Nothing stops people from mix matching backup media.
If I lose the series I downloaded versus my family photos, not the same impact.
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I was the infant and have destroyed many discs.
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Got any evidence for that claim?
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Yeah, physical evidence.
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So basically no,you haven't.
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Looking up the Hutchinson Encyclopedia pictured above: which one of you did this?
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SDs are cheap these days, 128 class 10 for 9$. Just don't buy them for OS level writes, logging is ok.
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I only have an estimated 96 remaining years on this planet. Why would I care about my data after that?
