Oh thank you for telling me about these, I wasn’t aware that there was a DVD/bluray format designed for archival purposes. The media is more expensive than I remember blank discs being back when I still used them, but it’s not horrible either, like $100 CAD for a 25 pack.
It’s probably too late by now for my old backup/data CDs and DVDs, but this is the first time I’ve felt like I could be confident in something to store data that I want to archive without worrying about doing the active archival stuff with (and where the files won’t be stored on someone else’s computer, putting both my privacy and data security in their hands).
It’s also given me a good reason to get a drive capable of reading those old data discs to see if I can even access that data still, though I’m not holding my breath. The writers aren’t even that expensive.
Edit: Correction: m-disc BDXL 100GB discs are pretty expensive, now that I’m looking deeper. 100 CAD will get a 25 pack of 25GB discs, 50GB discs are a little more than twice that and 100GB are a bit more than twice the 50GB.
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Oh thank you for telling me about these, I wasn’t aware that there was a DVD/bluray format designed for archival purposes. The media is more expensive than I remember blank discs being back when I still used them, but it’s not horrible either, like $100 CAD for a 25 pack.
It’s probably too late by now for my old backup/data CDs and DVDs, but this is the first time I’ve felt like I could be confident in something to store data that I want to archive without worrying about doing the active archival stuff with (and where the files won’t be stored on someone else’s computer, putting both my privacy and data security in their hands).
It’s also given me a good reason to get a drive capable of reading those old data discs to see if I can even access that data still, though I’m not holding my breath. The writers aren’t even that expensive.
Edit: Correction: m-disc BDXL 100GB discs are pretty expensive, now that I’m looking deeper. 100 CAD will get a 25 pack of 25GB discs, 50GB discs are a little more than twice that and 100GB are a bit more than twice the 50GB.