Is there any good optical storage tech out there?Blu-ray is expensive and limited in size (100-128 GB) and a bad option for data hoarding even knowing how long the data can stay on it.Every time I look for better options, I see some articles about insane new tech capable of storing 2 PB, but of course, I still can't buy it.Is there a promising option that might actually make it past the prototype phase?
https://foliophotonics.com/will this ever be available ?
>>106895477Just asked2026 1st commercial product
>>106895383Nope. Optical storage tech available for consumers is dead. All the money now is on flash storage and enterprise is keeping HDD and tape on life support. Best you can do is BDXL with modded drives.
>>106895818>modded drivesHow ?
>>106895949firmware mods
>>106895818Why modded? My LG and Pioneer drives work just fine with BDXL discs.
>>106896210for what ?
>>106895818It sucks, why can't we have reliable long term storage without buying hundreds of expensive blu-rays...I don't even care about random rw I just want reliable storage that isn't 15 years old.
>>106896363
50GB blu-rays are cheap, about $2 each.just burn more
>>106896491the other anon didn't understand either...I just never heard of any mod improving bdxl r/w.My burner works fine with them.
>>10689650710tb HDDs are about 160$ for a single drivefor 10tb of 50gb blu-rays I need 200 discs and it will cost be 400$ (for 2$ discs)
>>106895383Regarding storage devices (cheap, long lasting, high capacity) pick 2
>>106896613well we don't have long lasting, high capacity storage do we ?
>>106896567forgot to add data on blu-rays cannot be modified
>>106896630Tape or certain industrial grade flash drives (both SD and SSD). Only the faggot consumer grade flash modules are unreliable as cold storage long term.
>>106896657SSDs memory cells can't store electrons for long when not powered on, industrial or not.(feel free to prove me wrong)
>>106896657>>106896670I wouldn't be surprised if a modern SLC drive could hold data for more than 100 years.So many phones and devices like the PSP and iPods from the early 2000s have their firmware stored on flash and they still mostly work without any issues.
>>10689668110 years retention at 55ºCShould be a lot longer than that when stored at room temperature or refrigerator
>>106896670I admittedly can't tell you about SSDs for certain, but I have reliable information that SD Cards rated for such purposes are indeed very reliable after storing data for 10+ years, with no bit flips. I am willing to give that a chance.
>>106896762I had a lot of sd cards.All lost data, got corrupted and even stopped working.I used them in lots of different devices, they always stopped working within 5 years, sometimes much quicker, sometimes even when brand new.I bought cheap ones, expensive ones, big capacity, small capacity, the only thing that didn't change is that I only buy microsd.Either I am very unlucky either this type of storage is very unreliable.
>>106895477any other promising things similar to this ?
>>106896508Firmware mod is needed if you want to either watch 4K movies on 1080p only drive, or ripping movies.
What is the best blank dvds nowadays to make backups?i dont need that much space so i can go that route on my job. Hell maybe i could even use cds
>>106897053M-discs for reliability
>>106896881https://forum.makemkv.com/forum/viewtopic.php?f=16&t=19634
>>106897630i cannot find those unless i pay obscene amounts, can anyone link someisnt there just dvd disc with the new bluray plastic that was more durable?
>>106897946https://www.amazon.com/Verbatim-M-Disc-BD-R-Branded-Surface/dp/B011PZALWA/~4.5$/disc
>>106898195those are bluerays, i am trying to avoid buying a drive, money is tight right now, i am just starting on being selfemployed, and again, i dont need something bigger than a dvd
*~4.5$/25GB disc
>>106898278then try something like this:https://www.amazon.com/Verbatim-DVD-R-4-7GB-UltraLife-Archival/dp/B000WTO352or this:https://www.amazon.com/Verbatim-DataLifePlus-Inkjet-Printable-Surface/dp/B000A0CV9S
>>106896853https://medium.com/the-quantastic-journal/the-1-6-petabit-breakthrough-how-a-single-room-became-the-new-data-stadium-420d63141a05can't find a product tho
>>106895383Hyper CD-ROM.https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hyper_CD-ROM
>>106900445sadly this is 20 years old and the company that made it didn't give any news
>>106895383Laserdisc.
>>106900929/g/ bot
>>106896475Just use tape storage>but it's oldIt just fucking works
>>106901486how expensive is the tape reader/writer anon ?
>>106896670tell that to my samsung 970 that booted after 467 days of being unplugged from the wall and sitting in a 100+ degree garage.
>>106901657467 days is not longtry that after 10years
>>106901486Tape storage is neat but it's definitely not as good as optical storage, hell it's not even as good as flash storage. Are you fucking crazy?It's magnetically charged particles no different than a cassette tape.
