Ok good to hear. I will pick up a drive and some discs to get this project started.
I have TempleOS snapshots from 2015 and 2016. I know 100% these are not glowing. Today every copy online is suspect. M-Disc will carry God's temple in to the next millennia untainted by CIA.
All hard drives made today are shit. I have ST225 mfm drives that sat for decades that still spin up and work.Some old SCSI mac drives that still spin up. But IDE's and modern SATAs seem to die randomly after 5 or 10 years. Its been a race to the bottom on commodity drives. The only way storing shit on hard drives is safe is if you keep it spinning in a raid and actively monitor and maintain it by replacing drives that fail out. I am doing that now and it is a constant cost that I am trying to get away from.
Your saying M-disc wont be able to carry me to that point? What if the only thing available in 10 years is (((cloud)))? Wouldn't it be nice to have something that could safely get me past that point?
I am banking on the sheer number of dvd drives out in the wild and the fact I will probably still have some old computers around. Heck I still have my coco2 and the ddss 5.25 minidisk still works as well as the ccr cassette player. With a little maintenance and care things can last.
Thomas Young
Tape > MDisc TBH
Nicholas Phillips
Not quite true. If you don't use the entire disc's capacity at once, stuff like multisession allows you to append additional data until you fill the entire disc.
Absolutely this. Using HDD/flash for offline storage is a REALLY BAD idea, online mirrored RAID with live SMART alert is the only safe option aside from tape or M-DISC (which should also be duplicated on media from different brands/batches). I learned this the hard way :-(
Liam White
If you can afford thousands of dollars for a tape reader/writer and you have a workflow to ensure that the relatively short lifetime of tape won't result in data loss, sure, knock yourself out.
Lincoln Taylor
Well you know you could also record stuff like pub med and scientific journals and stuff like that. Not just templeos and all the seasons of lucky star.
Evan Harris
It's a disk you dumb nigger, how the fuck can it talk to the internet. If you assume other hardware is compromised (such as the CPU), the disk is the last of your problems.
Chase Perry
Great idea OP.
I'm sure optical drives and IDE interfaces are going to be totally common place on the tablets of the future. You should have no problem plugging one up.
For reference, my dad used to operate on the first IBM mainframes. As such his data was stored on those old IBM 355 hard drives (see pic).
Luckily my new dell laptop has a connection for one, so hooking it up was easy-peasey.
imagine if theres a doomsday scenario and nobody can find a copy of an os to run their computers. Then bam here comes this guy with templeos written on an m disk.
