Just use cave paintings. Proven reliable, cheap, not backdoored by CIA. Use different caves for parity, use redundancy coding, and remember to store very clear and straightforward instruction for data retrieval.
M-dicks
Gabriel Adams
Bentley Roberts
Doomsday senerio: M-Disc BluRay for critical stuff, HDD for important stuff, LTO for the rest.
Carter Bell
Reminder that there is only one tried-and-true method for preserving your data for thousands of years.
Josiah Kelly
Apparently some people are ignoring M-Disc are a sham:
HDDs are too risky, SSD is here to stay, and tape is reliable if stored in a vacuum sealed magnesium box.
Can recommend if none raid.
Landon Long
It is not the data on the platter that is the issue. The issue is the mechanics of the drive is very complicated with lots of failure points. You can't pull the platters out very easily and swap them in to another drive housing. Let a drive sit for years and lube in the spindle or head servomechanism can break down. Capacitors have a limited lifespan.
On BluRay the premium they get for "M-Disc" may be a sham.The quality isn't. The "M-Disc" BD formula looks to be the same as a normal BD-R. But on DVD-R "M-Disc" may be worth the money because you get a DVD-R with the better non-organic BD-R materiel.
M-Disc DVD-R burners are not special. They are just programmed to use the more powerful BD-R laser setting to burn "M-Disc" DVD-Rs.
So for DVD-R I would get "M-Disc" just because that guarantee's you are getting something decent. DVD-R's are all over the map from total shit to decent. There are some that are made with CD-r tier organic compounds that definitely do not last. On BD-R I would go with any good brand like Panasonic. M-Disc isn't special there. That has been my understanding of it all and it seems to agree with the conclusion Dr Gough reached in the link above.
Dominic Green
>Write once isn't a flaw, it's a feature. It means someone can't go back and (((revise))) a snapshot.
lol you fucking nigtard. you use cryptographic methods for that, not some guy's word about some disk that supposedely is the original one. even if you get back the right disk it can be modified. let's say the pits correspond to bits. i want to write the number representing how gay you are on the disk. it was originally a 1. but now i add 3000 more pits and it's 2^3001
Carson Lee
Call me when we have tron disks.
Tyler Roberts
wot
Easton Bennett
The readers are expensive
Camden Smith
those are some THICC discs