Whats the best way to archive data long term while on a budget ?

Gunpachi · 1Y

Whats the best way to archive data long term while on a budget ?

@taladar@sh.itjust.works · 1Y

Generally speaking obscure formats are not great for long term storage for your chances to read it again years later.

@afunkysongaday@lemmy.world · 1Y

You can read those with a regular blu ray drive. No special hard- or software needed.

@taladar@sh.itjust.works · 1Y

By the time blu ray started becoming popular optical media were basically dead already as a data storage medium so those aren’t particular common either.

Atemu · 1Y

The only reason blu ray still exists is that you can’t buy (as in: own) movies in a high quality format otherwise.

If the publishers got the sticks out of their arses and offered file downloads for purchase, I wouldn’t see a single reason to buy a physical disk other than sentimentalism.

@taladar@sh.itjust.works · 1Y

And that is movie blu ray, data blu ray formats never really got off the ground.