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DVDs have a limited lifespan as well

• titzer 4y ago
  My oldest one is 25 years old and still works with no issues. Technically every physical object breaks down over time, but I expect that with proper storage and handling with care, a pressed DVD could last 50 years. And then you can also rip the bits and store them.
  • YurgenJurgensen 4y ago
    I have a disc from 2004 that had been in its original shrink wrap until this year but it had read errors when I tried to rip it and was showing signs of rot. Some discs are from bad batches, and you don't really have any way of knowing if a disc is bad until it starts rotting.
• selfhoster11 4y ago
  Luckily, the data on them does not. Storing a 5GB file locally is basically free, at $15 ish per terabyte for modern HDDs.
  • moffkalast 4y ago
    With MKV transcoding you can get them down to around 300MB, DVD quality is pretty shit.
    • selfhoster11 4y ago
      That's exactly my point. Even if you just rip it and do nothing else to the data, storing the resultant raw files is basically no effort.