• exu@feditown.com
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    11 days ago

    I didn’t know DVDs are supposed to last 100 years. That’s definitely not the case with newer storage media, be it BluRay, hard disks or even worse SSDs.

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      11 days ago

      Modern Blurays should actually last longer than DVDs. Bluray M-Discs supposedly even last 1000 years. 100 years for DVDs is pretty optimistic. 20-50 years is more realistic.

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        11 days ago

        Apparently there’s some huge drama in data hoarding communities about manufacturers switching between different recording technologies, and how everybody is worried that they aren’t going to last for 5-10-100-1000 years.