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Checked my stack of hard-drives, and... Yes... yes, I did have a working copy.
That cemented it in my personal world - NAS with also HD's is the way to go.
I used to be concerned about optical media longevity. I bought Taiyo-Yuden discs. I checked their integrity. I stored them carefully. But the format became obsolete (for me) long before the media degraded. Recordable discs are just too small for the backup use case I had. Optical drives are still available of course, but they are now rarely standard with a new PC or laptop, and soon will become specialist components,…
> Optical drives are still available of course, but they are now rarely standard with a new PC or laptop, and soon will become specialist components, and then it won’t be long before the drives become a greater limit to longevity than the media. IMO, the #1 use case for optical drives is probably playing music in the car. For anything old enough that it doesn't have an aux port, it's the best solution. * Tape adapter…
Not even that old. A friend of mine bought a BMW MY2020 and it still has a CD-player (it was an extra, but it was at least still available in 2020).
I wouldn't be surprised if you could still order new car, today, with a CD player.
Totally anecdotal but just a month ago I opened a box from my last moving (ended 4 years ago...) and I found a CD-RW labeled "Backup 2001", which survived 5-6 relocations, even an international one. Well, I put it into an USB DVD player I have aaaand, it starts spinning and spinning and spinning, and nothing shows up in Nautilus. Looking at dmesg I see a few I/O errors on the device. Then, I try ddrescue [1], start e…
Even with ddrescue you might lose a few bits. You will only find out when accessing those specific files and bits. For my photo history I prefer to keep PAR files next to it. On a running mechanical disc I haven't seen issues when running the repair. I do expect to see some errors in the future and as long as it stays under a certain percentage, things will be fixable. I started doing this long time in the past, when…
Totally anecdotal but just a month ago I opened a box from my last moving (ended 4 years ago...) and I found a CD-RW labeled "Backup 2001", which survived 5-6 relocations, even an international one. Well, I put it into an USB DVD player I have aaaand, it starts spinning and spinning and spinning, and nothing shows up in Nautilus. Looking at dmesg I see a few I/O errors on the device. Then, I try ddrescue [1], start e…
Even with ddrescue you might lose a few bits. You will only find out when accessing those specific files and bits. For my photo history I prefer to keep PAR files next to it. On a running mechanical disc I haven't seen issues when running the repair. I do expect to see some errors in the future and as long as it stays under a certain percentage, things will be fixable. I started doing this long time in the past, when…
I have long since moved away from optical media, really for anything, but especially archival. Long term storage to me looks like an array of magnetic disks held together with ZFS.
Totally anecdotal but just a month ago I opened a box from my last moving (ended 4 years ago...) and I found a CD-RW labeled "Backup 2001", which survived 5-6 relocations, even an international one. Well, I put it into an USB DVD player I have aaaand, it starts spinning and spinning and spinning, and nothing shows up in Nautilus. Looking at dmesg I see a few I/O errors on the device. Then, I try ddrescue [1], start e…
>Outlook Express format http://fileformats.archiveteam.org/wiki/Outlook_Express_Data...
[1] https://sourceforge.net/projects/ol2mbox/
EDIT: mmh looks like it's now `libpst` and it's actually in the Debian/Ubuntu repos...
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Even with ddrescue you might lose a few bits. You will only find out when accessing those specific files and bits. For my photo history I prefer to keep PAR files next to it. On a running mechanical disc I haven't seen issues when running the repair. I do expect to see some errors in the future and as long as it stays under a certain percentage, things will be fixable. I started doing this long time in the past, when…
Could you explain the PAR file and why that would help?
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Error_correction_code#Forward_...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Reed%E2%80%93Solomon_error_cor...
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A desktop CNC engraver can be had for $500. Stones are cheap. Archaeologists have read engraved stones after thousands of years of neglect!
And how many did they fail to read?
Whether the format it was written in is still comprehensible could be a more pertinent question.
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I was a fan of the matte white top printable taiyo udens. Back in my sharing early days, I probably had like 1000+ dvds of anime, movies, hk film, games etc easily. I had so much media that I didn't have time to watch it all, let alone watch it again in the future (there are some gems that I actually went out and purchased retail copies). Plus alot of the shit would get released at higher quality making my archive ob…
In my case it was early MMA fights, I was obssessed with martial arts in general, and up to 2007 I literally had a 500+ collection of burned CDs and DVDs, with every single fight from every major promotion in the world, catalogued by date, fighter's involved, styles, results etc. Until someday I realized that I probably would never rewatch any of those fights, I would simply watch the new ones that are happening ever…
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> Optical drives are still available of course, but they are now rarely standard with a new PC or laptop, and soon will become specialist components, and then it won’t be long before the drives become a greater limit to longevity than the media. IMO, the #1 use case for optical drives is probably playing music in the car. For anything old enough that it doesn't have an aux port, it's the best solution. * Tape adapter…
> IMO, the #1 use case for optical drives is probably playing music in the car. For anything old enough that it doesn't have an aux port, it's the best solution. Not even that old. A friend of mine bought a BMW MY2020 and it still has a CD-player (it was an extra, but it was at least still available in 2020). I wouldn't be surprised if you could still order new car, today, with a CD player.
But I have to imagine that people who have a choice between AUX/bluetooth and CDs, and choose CDs are in the minority.
It's kind of a pain to install a CD burning app (which has long since atrophied from most music programs), plug in a removable drive, etc. I only do it because the alternatives are much worse.