Long storage life curiosity

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Long storage life curiosity - lemm.ee

Hey guys, I just had a curiosity on the multiple ways of storaging stuff and how long would that hold, take backing it up to a newer storage after some years out of the table. So how did this come in my mind, I was just reminiscing about how I used to play games with inserting a CD or Cartridge onto the device and how I miss that flavour. I would like to do it again, I already like having my games dependancy free (praise mr goldmountain), and I am saving up some money to spend on hoarding possibilities. I would like to know what would have the longest storage life, would burning games into bluray discs be too unhinged or is something I am missing? Thanks in advance in helping me out witht his brainstorm.

Discs aren’t very suitable for long term storage. Really the only thing truly suited for long term storage of digital media is archival tape. Which isn’t cheap of accessible. The only accessible solution is to keep it alive in a raid and keep rebuilding as disks fail over the years.

Discs aren’t very suitable for long term storage.

M-DISC may well be a good option for long term storage.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/M-DISC

M-DISC - Wikipedia

Ah, cool, quite expensive (I see prices in my area around $20 USD / 100 GB) but uses no electricity.

Thanks for informing me. If you have TBs of data it’s not a sustainable solution unless you’re really into indexing. But for family photos and other long term archival its pretty great actually.

I picked up a $20 ASUS dvdrw off Amazon and they thru in 2 mdiscs. Just FYI