• suburban_hillbilly@lemmy.ml
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      4 months ago

      I use BD-R for archival storage of important files. They’re cheaper and easier than tape as well as small. I burn them in triplicate and throw them in the same case and as long as the same 3 bits don’t corrupt I can recover. The shelf life on a blue ray sealed and stored well is a few decades which is better than most other media.

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        Where are you buying your Blu-rays? Every time I’ve looked into burnable BD-Rs they’ve been more expensive per gigabyte than a 3.5" SATA hard drive (which has the bonus of better data longevity and being rewritable).

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        I understand that from a business perspective, but I’m having a hard time rationalizing it for personal use.

        I guess, if you’re doing a lot of video editing and you want to preserve a large personal library? Idk.

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          It’s mostly family photos and videos. I’ve become the de facto family digital archivist. Some digital copies of important phyiscal records. When you convert files to lossless/uncompressed formats suitable for long term storage they get large really quickly.

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      How often do you lend your drives to your friends? A cheap way to send big files without internet connection was paramount for sharing information.

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        Very rarely. I tend to have shared text or Excel files to actively share and work on. Nothing in the hundreds of gigs.

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      Flash-style drives like SSDs and… drives from alliexpress aren’t recommended for long-term storage.