• skeeter_dave@sh.itjust.works
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      11 months ago

      Hard disk drives will last even less. The lubrication will dry up and the disk will seize way before the 25 year mark.

      Bluray is a fine back up media, I use them for stuff on my NAS that I cannot lose like precious pictures of family and friends. Not all of us live on am abandoned salt mine with perfect temperature and humidity for long term tape storage.

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        11 months ago

        Hard disk drives will last even less. The lubrication will dry up and the disk will seize way before the 25 year mark.

        That’s what you have redundancies and backups

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            11 months ago

            I don’t have an exact time span but personally I wouldn’t trust them as anything more than temporary device storage, they randomly die often

            Cheap, low quality flash, poorer QC, etc

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      11 months ago

      Or… you could buy multiple copies of the Blu-Ray so that if one copy fails, you’ll always have backup Barbies at the ready.

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        11 months ago

        No they’ll all fail at the same time 25 to 30 years in the future.

        You need to buy multiple copies and place each one in a deep freeze, then thaw each one out as the previous one fails. It’s the only logical response.

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        11 months ago

        The physical discs degrade overtime. Getting 10 copies now won’t stop that, even if one might outlast another for a bit.