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I use MDISC media for photos. I wonder what everyone's experiences are, especially for the 25GB and 100GB Blu-Ray variants - have you seen them fail? It'd be gr

by Tepix 7y ago

I use MDISC media for photos. I wonder what everyone's experiences are, especially for the 25GB and 100GB Blu-Ray variants - have you seen them fail? It'd be great if MDISC are indeed as great as they claim to be and I don't have to worry about copying the stuff over to some other media for 50 years or so. PS: Yes, I have an external optical drive with USB 3.0 (and a USB A and USB C cable) to go with the media to be able to read them later

lrem 7y ago
My USB Blu-ray drive failed after two years and new ones cost about four times more than they used to. I shrugged it off and added one more hard drive of redundancy instead.
- pmlnr 7y ago
  While hard drive lasts, the trouble of disk based storage lies in the filesystem. I'd recommend running ZFS for long term storage.
  - mrguyorama 7y ago
    When do you predict Windows will no longer read FAT32? My first real computer was Windows 95b and that formatted FAT32 disks, and even my current 7 installation reads and writes FAT32 on flash drives
    - pmlnr 7y ago
      I was referring to bit flips and data corruption. Mirrored zfs can correct these, the rest of the filesystems can't. Flash drives are terrible mediums for backups unless you power them every month. When they loae charge they lose bits permanently.
      - mrguyorama 7y ago
        Do flash drives every "refresh" unmodified storage? I'm not super familiar with the behavior of cheap flash storage controllers