As Sony exits, Verbatim doubles down on optical media — stable supply of discs is a "top priority" despite shrinking market
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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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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).
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I've had good luck with their stuff so I'm pleased
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Work to preserve physical media across all your entertainment. You give away your leverage as a consumer with every stream and digital "purchase" (because of course you legally own nothing digital from these companies, you lease the right to access them, until that company decides you no longer get that access, see Sony)
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This is good news. I burn my some of my medias to DVD and Blu-ray discs.
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This is perhaps more useful, serving as both checksum and data correction.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Parchive
Not that it can fit in the blockchain though. At least from what little I know about blockchains, they can't possibly store any substantial amount of data.
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As long as they are the right region format for the DVD player they should be fine. Ripped files don't really have region formats anymore, but you can add the appropriate one in most burners.
You can also get region agnostic players but that's probably harder to do now than just making all your media in the right format.
