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> I copied my late 80s 5.25" floppies to 1.44MB floppies in the early 90s. In the mid 90s I copied anything accumulated to CD-Rs. In the 2000s I started moving
by TacticalCoder 4y ago
> I copied my late 80s 5.25" floppies to 1.44MB floppies in the early 90s. In the mid 90s I copied anything accumulated to CD-Rs. In the 2000s I started moving everything to DVD-Rs.
BluRay discs are expected to last 50 to 100 years at least. It's longer than magnetic tapes. Still not paper but, well, kinda inconvenient to "print" 1 GB of data on paper in a way that's easy to store / re-read.
I have 80s floppies (5"1/4) that still can be read fine but I'd say at least 1/3rd of them are now failing. Still: after about 35 years, I'd say it's not bad. I expect BluRay discs to completely outlive me.