I just need to preserve some old data that I have on my computers, so I was wondering what would be the best way to archive stuff long term.
Blu-ray disks ? Multiple HDDs ? What do you guys suggest ?
I just need to preserve some old data that I have on my computers, so I was wondering what would be the best way to archive stuff long term.
Blu-ray disks ? Multiple HDDs ? What do you guys suggest ?
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/M-DISC
Generally speaking obscure formats are not great for long term storage for your chances to read it again years later.
You can read those with a regular blu ray drive. No special hard- or software needed.
By the time blu ray started becoming popular optical media were basically dead already as a data storage medium so those aren’t particular common either.
The only reason blu ray still exists is that you can’t buy (as in: own) movies in a high quality format otherwise.
If the publishers got the sticks out of their arses and offered file downloads for purchase, I wouldn’t see a single reason to buy a physical disk other than sentimentalism.
And that is movie blu ray, data blu ray formats never really got off the ground.
Are those… cheap? They don’t look cheap.
Nope
About £90 for 4 discs, and £30 for the writer, gets you 400Gb storage.
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I bought a (nearly) 1Tb thumb drive for £10 last week and copied all my music onto it. I’m thinking of getting a few more for docs and other media and leaving them in my keysafe.