datahoarder
Who are we?
We are digital librarians. Among us are represented the various reasons to keep data -- legal requirements, competitive requirements, uncertainty of permanence of cloud services, distaste for transmitting your data externally (e.g. government or corporate espionage), cultural and familial archivists, internet collapse preppers, and people who do it themselves so they're sure it's done right. Everyone has their reasons for curating the data they have decided to keep (either forever or For A Damn Long Time). Along the way we have sought out like-minded individuals to exchange strategies, war stories, and cautionary tales of failures.
We are one. We are legion. And we're trying really hard not to forget.
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M-Disc format is probably the best form of archiving data long term. But the discs are not cheap and you need a "burner" for it too (~~and a reader everywhere you want to read it~~) Edit: Correction, these discs should be readable by normal DVD and BlueRay players, but not all. There are DVDs and BlueRay discs with this format. If price is not the biggest issue and if you don't want to archive often terabytes of data, this could be a solution to long term archival of important data.
A quick look in Amazon (Germany) the cheapest option has a 6 x BlueRay spindle with each 100gb for about 54 Euros (at a discount). Just to give an idea; usually this stuff is more expensive.
Hasn't there been an allegedly scandal with one of the m disc sellers offering cheaper made products shortening the life span of the data?
I think it was Verbatim, but I'm not sure. Yes there was a "scandal" or "drama". I don't know the details. But just because one company decided to go that route does not mean the entire format is bad. There are other companies too.
I thought Mileniatta came up with the idea and verbatim and rite bought licence to produce but now it's only verbatim making them? Are other players back in the game?
Interesting, thanks for sharing
I've searched my local market and what made me think twice about the MDisc is the ease of access to read/write drives for it. Even common DVD read/write drives are getting extremely expensive. The more common external drives feel fragile and the internal drives are hard to find and with very high prices, usually above €100. The concept and format is appealing but for what I intend to keep it feels excessive.
I've had good luck with finding perfectly working internal R/W drives on the local scrap market for cheap. I guess still lots of PCs from that era being junked by offices.
Sealed 25-50 GB BD RW media go for ~$1 per disc when they randomly show up in the surplus store.