As Sony exits, Verbatim doubles down on optical media — stable supply of discs is a "top priority" despite shrinking market
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Disc failure is the verbatim I remember, but I'm glad they're still around. My 2008 car has a 6 disc CD changer, and I have a few retro PCs which rely on CDs too. Yes, I know I can get adapters for CF cards and the like, but doing things the old way is the whole point.
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Ideally you want stories to go with the photos. Your memory will fade. You'll forget some stories. For the stories you remember you'll forget details. Write the stories. The photos are a supplement for your stories.
I write notes on the photos.
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Also I feel like at that point you might as well go tape rather than fiddle around with 40 Blu-rays.
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Not wrong, but 30 years are probably good enough for most backup cases
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Kinda afraid to even look it up or try it.
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What's the benefit of cracking the drive?
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I still burn discs every now and then. Definitely glad to see I don't have to panic buy stockpiles of them now.
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https://www.apacer.com/en/product/personal-product/detail/personal_memorycard/microsdxc_uhs-i_u3_v30_a1_gaming_card Similar but this is the closest I can find.
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My goal was to just use it as media storage, smol formats and minimal use cases
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What do people normally store one write one mediums I feel like I'd have a hard time working with write once items except for like maybe just music storage
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Probably that you can backup your own media
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It's a bd writer, it can backup my media out of the box.
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Yaaarrrr.
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Photographer, videographer mostly, buy also data hoarder, etc. I still have all my pre-AOL data, too.
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Most likely. Things like photos you want to live forever though, you never know what people will be interested in in the future.
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Could you store a checksum of the backup with an NFT? Think I just threw up a little bit there, but perhaps there is actually a use case for them them. At least it proves the backup remains since it was created regardless of how many copies you have
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External HDs are good for short term backup - I do use them for that myself.
But they are not suitable for long term backup, they are susceptible to damage, sector errors,bit rod and interference.
If you leave them unpowered for longer times the chances that the mechanical components are gonna fail are actually increased.
Some of these issues can be reduced,but never fully.
Additionally there are ransomware viruses that directly attack them - they intentionally encrypt the backups first when the drives are connected before they attack the live data. And in at least one case I know of the attackers bricked the HD firmware.
Therefore for long term storage of really important things WORM (write once read many) media is to be preferred - even if the attackers can access the disk for some reason they cannot alter the once written data.
