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		ValentineC on April 21, 2020 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: On WD Red NAS Drives > In terms of data archiving, SSDs are bad, HDDs are much better and suitable for most people, but tape drives are still the real archival medium. What do you think of optical media like BD-R? I've heard that the inorganic substrate they use these days is decent for archival.

ocdtrekkie on April 21, 2020 | [–]

M Disc claims to sell DVD-R and BD-R discs that are good for a thousand years. Many modern disc burners support burning to M Discs already. They're a little pricey though.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/M-DISC

numpad0 on April 22, 2020 | [–]

I’ve heard that too. Fairly normal ones right? 25GB/disc sounds cumbersome to handle though.

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