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That is amazing since thumb drives are much cheaper by the MB and less prone to degredation
by gitfan86 4y ago
That is amazing since thumb drives are much cheaper by the MB and less prone to degredation
- tpmx 4y agoI'm guessing this product line is kept alive by outdated local government/municipality regulations or something along the lines of that. Oh, and owners of cars with CD players :). About now is probably the time to hoard.
- ClumsyPilot 4y agoI needed my x-ray form the hospital, they gave me a CD. It actually kind of makes sence - they aren't gonna keep stacks of USB drives,.
- userbinator 4y agoThe fact that it's WORM media also makes sense for medical images, where you really don't want them to be editable.
- cancerhacker 4y agoMy hospital distributed all my CT, PET and MRI imagery on DVD. When I had to travel cross country to a specialist, I'd ripped them all and brought a thumb drive - which the new hospital refused to deal with. I had to stay up all night burning a set of DVDs for them from the the iso images. (And even though I had them all available via dropbox - the hospital didn't allow access to the internet at large.)
- Uvix 4y agoSounds like the hospital had their infosec well in hand. That's rare.
- megous 4y agoAdd in autoplay.inf to the burned CD, and we'll see...
- NoZebra120vClip 4y agoWhile both types of removable media represent a risk of malware, a USB device represents a very real electronic threat of damage to equipment. You can easily inspect a CD-ROM or DVD disc and confirm that it is what it claims to be. You cannot inspect most USB thumb drives without destroying them, and they could be disguised keyboards, keyloggers, wireless exfiltration, or device destruction devices. I am really sort of annoyed by the step backwards we've taken from tapes and optical discs into "this really smart device that happens to store data wants to interface with as many computers as possible". It's icky for those who instinctively understand and practice good infosec hygiene.
- userbinator 4y agoI think the "step backwards" is largely due to the rise of flash memory, which requires an electrical interface. That said, electrical destruction aside, the threat of removable media "becoming something else" is avoided if you use dedicated storage interfaces instead of USB, like SD/TF/MMC/etc.
- NikolaNovak 4y ago>>less prone to degredation Are they, over time? I always assumed thumb drives would rot after years let alone decades.
- pdntspa 4y agoI have CD-Rs that I burned 20 years ago that are still readable. I would say this is the majority of disks. I have a box of thumb drives that are between 10 and 20 years old... less than half of them even register, let alone read anything. And often those that do quickly die.
- orangepurple 4y agoNot only that but if you budget for an expected error rate of let's say 10% you can use par2 to create additional files that add that redundancy to your archives. par2 default redundancy is set to 5%. PAR2 uses Reed-Solomon Coding to perform its calculations. https://github.com/Parchive/par2cmdline https://github.com/Parchive/par2cmdline
- joecool1029 4y agoyup, that's what I do for my longterm archives. BTW, new hardware instruction optimized version: https://github.com/animetosho/par2cmdline-turbo/ https://github.com/animetosho/par2cmdline-turbo/