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Your burned CDs and DVDs are decaying, and the photos on them may already be gone (www.makeuseof.com)
submitted 3 months ago by to c/technology@lemmy.ml
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[–] 9 points 3 months ago

So the mean reason people have now unreadable optical data is that they stopped thinking about it a long time ago for an utter lack of options.

Well, there are 100GB and 120GB Bluray M-Discs. But yeah, the only things larger are either spinning rust (i.e. HDDs that need to be refreshed regularly to prevent bit rot) or very expensive LTO hardware and tapes.

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