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From: Borax Man <rotflol2@hotmail.com>
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Subject: Re: Alternative to Optical Storage????
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On 2024-09-27, Rich <rich@example.invalid> wrote:
> In comp.os.linux.misc Nux Vomica <nv@linux.rocks> wrote:
>> It seems that a lot of users are, irrationally, opposed to the
>> use of optical media for long-term archival storage.
>
> Having personally experienced failures of both cd-r and dvd-r media 
> wherein the recorded media became unreadable in a very short timeframe 
> (only a few years) even with proper storage it is not at all irrational 
> to be skeptical of claims of significant lifetimes for optical media 
> (esp.  the user recordable type, pressed disks are a different matter).  
> Existing user recordable optical systems have, so far, had a poor track 
> record, so any new system has a higher bar to get over before it is 
> trusted for any long-term archive use.
>
>

I've generally had very positive experiences with CD and DVD ROM's I've
burned.  I've used Verbatim disks, and I have disks that are 20 years
old that are still fine.  BUT I do have a few disks, which I think were
from the same spindle, which started to degrade from the edge, from what
I suspect was a manufacturing defect.

I use hard drives, as it is easy (and cheap) to make copies.  Using
BTRFS you can protect against what would otherwise been undetected
errors.  I have files that I've transferred from computer to computer,
back from 1994-1995.  These exist because I've simply made copies.  So
as this has worked for me, that is how I archive.  On hard disk, making
copies.