As Sony exits, Verbatim doubles down on optical media — stable supply of discs is a "top priority" despite shrinking market
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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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I mean, tapes just don't have the same longetivity as an archive grade optical disc, but it's probably fine for your collection of porn and pirated movies.
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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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Personally I store all "Very important data" on it - things I really don't want to loose even if my data storage at home and my cloud storage gets compromised.
Among them:-
Photos of life events. Wedding, photos of the kids, photos of relatives that are now deceased, etc.
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Important documents. Birth certificates, copies of IDs, passports, insurance documents, degrees and certificates, banking/taxation/accounting documents, bills for the important stuff like major renovations, the expensive IT stuff, etc.*
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Backup of important files (for me Uni files for my lectures, some work files, backup of the password DBs, plans for the house, a tutorial how to receive files from the cloud storage, decryption keys, etc.)
(*: This is more a theoretical choice - as I can get 100GB media for the same price as the 50GB I currently simply copy the full paperless file storage. But the script normally only copies these. They are flagged with a custom field in paperless)
I do not use addition to the storage,so no "these files are new since the last copy" but I simply make a full backup of these files every time (usually three times a year). This reduces the risk of one backup being compromised - very likely I only fall back 4 month which is tolerable. The discs itself are stored in a locked box in a bank vault a bit further away. I have to go there a few times a year anyway,so it's not hassle. (And they have great coffee). The box costs me 50€ a year and has enough room for 50 years of M Disks and a few extra items.
Anything taxation related must be stored for 10 years even by private individuals here,so there is that.
My customers (smaller health care organisations, e.g. your fellow neighbourhood dentist or GP) usually store patient data and accounting data on them. They need to store them long term (up to 30 years) for legal reasons, additionally they don't want a opposing lawyer to later tell them "you have manipulated the data". Having multiple copies that cannot be manipulated reduces that claim to "you manipulated before you stored it" and we have other ways to fight that.
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How are external HDs not a backup? Sure if it's left attached 24/7 it would also get caught by ransomware potentially but otherwise surely that is what external media is good for?
Most of my data isn't that important, but have a script that can sync a live copy to several locations over the LAN and create a timestamped compressed folder of it, usually keep a few of the timestamped copies on external media.
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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.
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In theory maybe? But...I don't know why one should.
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Price. CDs are dirt cheap to reproduce, and successive generations of optical media are only somewhat more expensive. Plastic shells and mechanisms cost money. CDs are probably the cheapest physical audio format ever (at least as far as production costs are concerned).
