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Make sure to keep an external optical drive with USB-C around as well. I know that none of my PCs from the last 5 years had a builtin optical drive. I think fi
by onion2k 4y ago
Make sure to keep an external optical drive with USB-C around as well. I know that none of my PCs from the last 5 years had a builtin optical drive.
I think finding a device to read the media is likely to be a bigger challenge than finding media that lasts 100 years. I strongly doubt a normal Blu-ray player would last that long unless it was kept in a controlled environment.
- mrpopo 4y agoYes. I kept my external blu-ray player in bubble-wrap in a drawer for the last 5 years with no use for it. When I tried plugging it in last year, it was no longer working (clicking noise, probably from one of the motors). In 20 years, absolutely no one except maybe specialized IT companies will have a working optical drive at disposal (just like tape players and sloppy drives).
- Tepix 4y agoI had a Toshiba Blu-ray player that i didn't use for 3+ years and it had the same issue.
- ElectricalUnion 4y agoLike cassete drives, unless they're particularly high end units (unlikely) they will most likely have rotten/badly conformed belts and seized lubricants by the time you want to recover your data.
- Tepix 4y agoAs long as optical drives are still being built, you should be good (and perhaps ~5 years after that). Once it's obvious that the most recently built drives that can read the media are getting unreliable (due to their age), it's time to switch to a new medium.