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Fujitsu is still putting Blu-ray drives in laptops; and people in Japan still want them (www.techspot.com)

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[–] arcterus@piefed.blahaj.zone 11 points 3 weeks ago* (last edited 3 weeks ago) (18 children)

TBH I would consider one of these. I've been thinking about using discs for long-term backups, and I've also been planning to start buying music and stuff more instead of effectively renting from streaming services.

[–] bluGill@fedia.io 14 points 3 weeks ago (12 children)

Most writable disks have a poor life. the only good long term backup option is lots of redundancy and regular check that they are all readable - recreating what isn't before you lose it

[–] arcterus@piefed.blahaj.zone 3 points 3 weeks ago* (last edited 3 weeks ago) (1 children)

As someone else mentioned, CDs, DVDs, and especially BDs are supposed to last quite a while. I'd obviously burn more than one though and check them occasionally (and probably throw most of it on encrypted cloud storage in case there's a fire or something).

[–] oeuf@slrpnk.net 1 points 3 weeks ago

I recently found some cheap CDs and DVDs that I backed my stuff up on 17 years ago and the data was pristine 👌

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