I don't put a lot of faith in jump drives.Īt my day job I have almost 800 DVDs of about 30,000 projects done since 2003, coupled with a big Access database. I just looked now and they're cheaper, but still nowhere near as cheap as a regular disc.įor my studio work I use a combination of blu rays, cloud storage, and raids (for ongoing projects). I am aware of mdiscs, the last time I looked into them years ago they were fairly expensive so I don't use them. Or rent any space on a couple web servers and "put" the data. I've just lost too much data over the years to trust a thin plastic disc. I read about the mdiscs now, but still its just a fancy DVDR. For me the answer is just have two identical hard drives of any kind and if I really care about the material, just copy it to a new drive once in awhile. From what I've read if you write to it once r twice for archival and keep it in a safe place it will last greater than the ten years easily. That ten year figure is based however on thousands of read/write cycles. i would not trust any optical disks that can be scratched.Įdit: after abit of reading it seems the lifespan of flash storage is ten years but is somewhat dependant on the amount of read/write cycles. If you're that worried about it, store the project on redundant pairs of usb sticks or by a couple solid state external drives. Johnnever heard of mdisc but if you're really that concerned about indefinite storage I believe any solid state drive even usb sticks never wear out. It's compact and relatively inexpensive, even for the 100GB disks.Īnyone using it? have comments? Think it is too early? It appears that you can play an M-Disc back / read it with a regular (though high end) Blu-ray player, even if you can only write to it with an M-Disc Blue-ray device andģ. It probably has a longer reliable life, based on the claims, than an HDD (and at least is a good second line of defence) Ģ. I'm interested in anyone's experience with M-Disc, because:ġ. As an extra archive to be stored in a bank safety deposit box, I'm trying to identify the best longish term solution recognising that nothing lasts "that long."
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