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Sony will cut around 250 jobs from the recordable media business manufacturing hub and will gradually cease production of optical discs, including Blu-ray discs. (mainichi.jp)
submitted 2 years ago by to c/technology@lemmy.world
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[–] 24 points 2 years ago* (1 child)

That makes this even more depressing. Sailing the high seas is the life for me.

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  • [–] 5 points 2 years ago (1 child)

    But where to store it all now?

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  • [–] 18 points 2 years ago* (1 child)

    More hard drives. RAID, rotate them out when they fail, more backups too. lol

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  • [–] -1 points 2 years ago (2 children)

    Sounds pricey. Discs are cheap.

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  • [–] 2 points 2 years ago (3 children)

    I've never had a CD/DVD R last more than a year anyway, even when using expensive media and slow burn speeds. So its not exactly archival.

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  • [+] 3 points 2 years ago* (1 child)
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  • [–] 1 point 2 years ago (2 children)

    Agree its not great for very long term storage though.

    What would be?

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  • [–] 2 points 2 years ago

    Right now, probably typical computer SSD disks. Anything lasting more than that usually steps in office/corporate solutions, like magnetic tape backups

    Googling around, I found out there are some "archival grade gold" DVDs, and a M-DISC (available as DVD or BluRay) that claims to last "centuries". Haven't seem anything on scratch or dust resistance about either

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