▲ 537 ▼ 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 TheImpressiveX@lemmy.ml to c/technology@lemmy.world 141 comments fedilink hide all child comments
[+] gardylou@lemmy.world 3 points 2 years ago* (1 child) [deleted] permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 2 child comments replies: [–] 0x0@programming.dev 1 point 2 years ago (2 children) Agree its not great for very long term storage though. What would be? permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 4 child comments replies: [–] bloodfart@lemmy.ml 3 points 2 years ago Magnetic disks. The person who said ssds hasn’t tried it. Spinning magnetic disks lose their data much more slowly than any ssd cell. Even 3.5” floppies do better than ssds. permalink fedilink source parent [–] ICastFist@programming.dev 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 permalink fedilink source parent
[–] 0x0@programming.dev 1 point 2 years ago (2 children) Agree its not great for very long term storage though. What would be? permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 4 child comments replies: [–] bloodfart@lemmy.ml 3 points 2 years ago Magnetic disks. The person who said ssds hasn’t tried it. Spinning magnetic disks lose their data much more slowly than any ssd cell. Even 3.5” floppies do better than ssds. permalink fedilink source parent [–] ICastFist@programming.dev 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 permalink fedilink source parent
[–] bloodfart@lemmy.ml 3 points 2 years ago Magnetic disks. The person who said ssds hasn’t tried it. Spinning magnetic disks lose their data much more slowly than any ssd cell. Even 3.5” floppies do better than ssds. permalink fedilink source parent
[–] ICastFist@programming.dev 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 permalink fedilink source parent