Lasers write to glass too
Comment on Hundreds of your Warner Bros DVDs probably don't work anymore
Wahots@pawb.social 2 days agoEtched glass storage can survive for insane periods of time, but is probably extremely expensive to write to. It might be better for things like offworld backups of human knowledge, almost like seed vaults.
ryannathans@aussie.zone 2 days ago
SolarPunker@slrpnk.net 2 days ago
M-Discs exist
desktop_user@lemmy.blahaj.zone 2 days ago
early CDs suffered from the data layer literally falling off, some blu rays are known to suffer from bit rot, vinyl gets damaged whenever it’s played.