[ale] A modest proposal for the times

[Solomon Peachy]

On Mon, Apr 07, 2025 at 10:07:16PM -0400, Jon "maddog" Hall via Ale wrote:
> Most people either download things you would put on a DVD/CD from the
> Internet or put it on a USB Thumb Drive.   You can get 1 TB thumb drives
> pretty cheap these days....much more convenient than carrying around a
> CD/DVD drive.

At this point, optical discs are only really useful for long-term 
offline backups; more ephemeral stuff is far better served by flash.

While DVD-Rs and BD-Rs do degrade over time, especially if stored 
improperly, they fare much better than modern TLC flash. (And the stuff 
that goes into most usb sticks and uSD cards is even lower on the totem 
pole)

I keep two copies of my important stuff on spinning rust, and burn 
another BD-R once I have enough to fill another disc.  As of this 
writing I'm up to 126 single-layer 25GB discs; the multilayer ones 
would of course hold more but aren't cost-effective.

 - Solomon
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Solomon Peachy			      pizza at shaftnet dot org (email&xmpp)
                                      @pizza:shaftnet dot org   (matrix)
Dowling Park, FL                      speachy (libera.chat)
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