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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The main cost is the hardware you could have open source NAS OS's
The thing you read about optical discs is not about HTL inorganic blurays
You read about CD's which uses an organize layer for the data.
Inorganic HTL blurays lasts 50+ years, and can be stored in room temperature and at high humidity.
About the box, those sleeves are not.designed for archival disc archival storage boxes protect blurays from scratches
And sony Archival Discs are inside a cartridge protected from scratches