It’s pretty dependent on humidity and temperature, so a DVD buried in a well sealed plastic bag with a desiccant packs is actually in good conditions. No light, generally cool, and low humidity are perfect.
A hard drive has a lot of moving parts that must work and are basically impossible to replace. With optical media you’re just storing the platters, and I’m sure you’ll still be able to track down a drive somewhere. You can still find VHS players and those have been obsolete for 25 years.
Twinklebreeze@lemmy.world 2 months ago
That’s what the m-disk is for I assume.
some_guy@lemmy.sdf.org 2 months ago
I wouldn’t trust that either.
wildbus8979@sh.itjust.works 2 months ago
M-Disks are rate for one thousand years. Unlike other writable optical meidaz it doesn’t use an organic substrate. It’s carbon glass, very stable.
some_guy@lemmy.sdf.org 2 months ago
What’s awesome is that no one alive today can disprove their marketing. I’ll stick with the tech that we’ve been using for decades. You know, the one about which we have lots of data how it performs and degrades. Because we’ve manufactured hundreds of millions, or perhaps billions, of them. How many people do you know using M-DISCs and how many of them have had them for decades? I can answer the second part: zero, as they came to market in 2009.
YesButActuallyMaybe@lemmy.ca 2 months ago
!remindme 1000 years