[ale] A modest proposal for the times

[jon.maddog.hall@gmail.com]

You can always use one of the M-DISK DVDs that have an advertised average retention time of 1000 years.

https://www.mdisc.com/

I am sure that if they only last 999 years the company would give you a refund.

md
> On 04/08/2025 8:05 AM EDT Solomon Peachy via Ale <ale at ale.org> wrote:
> 
>  
> 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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