Sony Group to cut 250 jobs from recordable media business' key hub - The Mainichi
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TOKYO (Kyodo) -- Sony Group Corp. will cut around 250 jobs from its recordable media business' key manufacturing hub in northeastern Japan and offer e
  • ipkpjersi@lemmy.mlEnglish
    251·
    5 months ago

    That makes this even more depressing. Sailing the high seas is the life for me.

    • MurdocEnglish
      5·
      5 months ago

      But where to store it all now?

      • ipkpjersi@lemmy.mlEnglish
        18·
        5 months ago

        More hard drives. RAID, rotate them out when they fail, more backups too. lol

        • MurdocEnglish
          56·
          5 months ago

          Sounds pricey. Discs are cheap.

          • A_Random_Idiot@lemmy.worldEnglish
            2·
            5 months ago

            I’ve never had a CD/DVD R last more than a year anyway, even when using expensive media and slow burn speeds. So its not exactly archival.

                • bloodfart@lemmy.mlEnglish
                  3·
                  5 months ago

                  Magnetic disks. The person who said ssds hasn’t tried it. Spinning magnetic disks lose their data much more slowly than any ssd cell.

                  Even 3.5” floppies do better than ssds.

                • I Cast Fist@programming.devEnglish
                  2·
                  5 months ago

                  Right now, probably typical computer SSD disks. Anything lasting more than that usually steps in office/corporate solutions, like magnetic tape backups

                  Googling around, I found out there are some “archival grade gold” DVDs, and a M-DISC (available as DVD or BluRay) that claims to last “centuries”. Haven’t seem anything on scratch or dust resistance about either

            • ZiemekZ@lemmy.worldEnglish
              2·
              5 months ago

              Which brand do you use? Not a single Verbatim has ever failed me, neither DVD nor Blu-ray. I also use a full-size burner with 12V SATA-USB adapter, not those stupid “slim” ones.

              • ZiemekZ@lemmy.worldEnglish
                1·
                5 months ago

                Doesn’t matter that much for Blu-rays since they’re non-organic anyway. It mattered more for DVDs since they use organic dyes, but I couldn’t find any M-Disc DVDs in Poland.