I’m a fan of optical storage and its durability (with reasonable care.)

But the problem is when you need to recover and have 20 Blu-ray Discs with important data scattered about, it takes days.

Or when there is a specific piece of data you want/need and only have a vague idea of where it is/was in history. Maybe if those ultra capacity discs took hold but it looks like the era of optical is ending

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pjmlp 5 days ago | parent [-]

Same applies to NAS, how many hours have you spent clicking around shared folders on company NAS / cloud storage, to track down where a specific set of files are actually located?

Search isn't helpful if the stuff wasn't properly indexed.

	▲	vunderba 5 days ago \| parent \| next [-]
		Sure, but clicking through a folder set on a single managed volume is orders of magnitude easier than rooting through a hundred blue ray DVDs, popping each one into your optical reader in the hopes that it is the correct one, and then having to search within that volume.
	▲	kalleboo 5 days ago \| parent \| prev \| next [-]
		> Search isn't helpful if the stuff wasn't properly indexed Synology indexes file contents similar to Spotlight on the Mac.
	▲	procaryote 5 days ago \| parent \| prev [-]
		rgrep is easier on a nas though