Comment on SPhotonix 5D memory crystal: cold storage lasts 14B years
HubertManne@piefed.social 1 day ago
Hope this becomes affordable enough to utilize. The main problem with optical disks is the length of time. Still would be nice to have something as convenient as a usb drive even if it can’t be rewritten. Disks were sorta of annoying to put some stuff on and then a bit more and a bit more.
Rhaedas@fedia.io 1 day ago
The real annoying part of CDs was the failure rate. It could be the medium, the burner, or the software, but it always seemed you'd spend time waiting for the data to be saved to a more "permanent" source, and it would finally pop up with an error and the whole disk is now trash. Kind of glad that tech is now obsolete. I think you could redo a read/write a few times, but they had similar issues and it was a pain.
t3rmit3@beehaw.org 1 day ago
I literally burned some DVDs last week…
AcesFullOfKings@feddit.uk 1 day ago
Powderhorn@beehaw.org 1 day ago
I doubt it was the microwave situation. One does that once. In college. On the floor kitchen because even though you have your own, this experiment is worth doing in public.