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Who is using Optical media for archiving and what are you using, anything larger than 25 Gb?
Or what do you use if not BluRay
 
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Optical media can degrade over time when exposed to heat and light. So I personally don't use it for archival purposes. I personally have a RAID-5 on my gateway that backs up the RAID-5 on my tower.
 
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I read an article were Facebook has been using enterprise bluray for archiving. So got me thinking. I use drives and cloud but my movies are like 5Tb. They make 100Gb bluray disks now. Might be an option plus the life expectency has gotten better
 

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If you use those robotic systems Facebook and other uses where they have like hundreds of thousands of high quality discs stored perfectly it's probably viable, but for home use it's far fatched IMO. Here a five pack with 100GB discs are about €90. :eek: And even the cheapest 50GB discs are close to €3 each, and you'd need 100 of them.
 

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I read an article were Facebook has been using enterprise bluray for archiving. So got me thinking. I use drives and cloud but my movies are like 5Tb. They make 100Gb bluray disks now. Might be an option plus the life expectency has gotten better
Robotics + zero light environment + air conditioning. I wouldn't call that readily available to a consumer. Plus, hard drive capacities are still pretty high in comparison.

Think about price as well. 25-30USD for just one 100GB BD disk. You could spend 60 USD and get a 1TB hard drive for the cost of two 100GB BD disks, forget a burner.
 

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I use a Seagate USB3 4tb external hdd, it's a bit pricey but fast for an external drive.
 

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But seriously, I put everything on hard drives. They are the best cost and long term performance option right now. Optical discs are more likely to degrade than hard drives. Hard drives can be re-written easier. Hard drives are cheaper in the long run. And backups are quicker to hard drives.

I'd use SSDs, but they are too expensive.
 
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Who is using Optical media for archiving and what are you using, anything larger than 25 Gb? Or what do you use if not BluRay

I do! Or did. I stopped burning everything since 2012. Got boxes and boxes of spindles full of CDs and DVDs from as far as umm... uh, 1998 LOL, yes, that's using a single speed SCSI CD writer with caddies. I even use an indexer software for easy finding which file in which disc. Biggest disc size I ever use is double-layered DVD about 8GB, to burn file(s) bigger in total size I made a disc ISO file and split it up. Didn't got into BluRay at all, I just skipped that BluRay writers in this life. :p Exaggerating, maybe karma bites me and I'll end up old and working in a classic BluRay library burning near defect ones to new discs. LMAO.

Anyway, ever since I knew they are unreliable (I didn't use gold-plated dye discs, they are more persistent) I just ended my habit.
 
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