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Optical media? Is that a viable part of backup strategies? I would expect tapes for sure, sounds like you know more than me.
Downside is having techbros talk you about laser rot, how internal drives are obstructing the optimal airflow in GAMING PC cases, and how Gabe Newell is based and stuff.
Great points! Lotta my optical media use also included hot summers in cars lol, nothing like an archival use.
A quality disc can last 10 years or more. At a company I used to work at the backups were burned to discs coated with gold. They had 15 year old discs that still worked.
Dang that's rad, had no idea (about it being used in such a way, I guess I mean, not too hard to imagine discs lasting that long).