I just bought a DVD burner/ reader today and a stack of 100 blanks. I'm planning some physical backups of favorite media (songs, books, movies, pictures). My rackmount setup could die to lightning, fire, theft, animals, and I don't want to be terrified whether I have a backup of any particular thing on it. I'm also planning a couple of HDDs for cold storage, but they're less reliable for LTD (long-term drawer) storage than DVDs.

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nickdothutton 3 days ago | parent | next [-]

I hope you bought archive grade media. Also I hope the people who make such media did their work well!

	▲	ang_cire 2 days ago \| parent [-]
		Yup, M-disc DVDs. Obviously I can't prove that they won't fail, but I don't exactly need them to last that long anyways. :P

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Aldipower 3 days ago | parent | prev [-]

Sorry, but cold storage HDD archiving is much more reliable in the long term then DVD. Also easier to execute. Simply copy on two different HDDs from different manufactures and you are more or less safe to go.

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ang_cire 2 days ago | parent [-]

HDD lasting up to 1000 years? I don't think so.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/M-DISC

	▲	Aldipower a day ago \| parent [-]
		Why so provocative? But thanks for the hint. I did not knew about M-DISC. But back to my argument. * M-DISC isn't a regular DVD. * It is expensive and has low capacity in comparison to HDD. * To read it, you need a reader/drive, where HDDs are already the drive in itself.