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12-14-2024, 04:33 PM
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Registered: Aug 2007
Distribution: TwisterOS lite, Linux in a VM
Posts: 104
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No More make DVD/4k/optical What do???
Do I put all media on vynl for backup? Make own 8k media? Since they stopped making DVD/4k/optical
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12-14-2024, 05:05 PM
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LQ 5k Club
Registered: Nov 2002
Location: Somewhere inside 9.9 million sq. km. Canada
Distribution: Slackware 15.0, current, slackware-arm-currnet
Posts: 6,334
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Back-up usb attached drives are cheap enough. You might consider one for backup.
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12-14-2024, 06:31 PM
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LQ Guru
Registered: Jun 2003
Location: Virginia
Distribution: Slackware = Main OpSys
Posts: 5,046
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There are still bundles of DVD blanks and USB drives AFAIK. I have maybe 3 stacks of 20 blanks left. Likely still will 5 years from now.
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12-14-2024, 10:09 PM
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LQ Guru
Registered: Jan 2006
Location: Virginia, USA
Distribution: Slackware, Ubuntu MATE, Mageia, and whatever VMs I happen to be playing with
Posts: 19,722
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To build on what enorbet said, where I live, blank CD/DVD discs are still readily available.
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12-15-2024, 10:50 AM
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Guru
Registered: Mar 2004
Location: Canada
Distribution: Slackware, Void, Debian, Ubuntu
Posts: 7,439
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I've still got a few DVDs left, but, rarely use them. Moving on to USB drives it seems.
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12-15-2024, 01:11 PM
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LQ Guru
Registered: Jan 2006
Location: Ireland
Distribution: Slackware, Slarm64 & Android
Posts: 17,207
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I would urge abandonment of optical media. They were an advance in the days of serial/parallel ports. I repaired CD Manufacturing equipment for a while, and it builds no confidence at all. Neither do aging optical drives.
USB or hard drives are the way to go.
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12-15-2024, 01:41 PM
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Senior Member
Registered: Jul 2006
Distribution: Debian Unstable
Posts: 1,199
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Supposedly M-DISC is the best solution for optical media archiving.
I'd recommend hard drives with the ZFS filesystem. More storage for less money and no special hardware needed. |
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12-15-2024, 03:47 PM
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Member
Registered: Jul 2008
Location: Montana USA
Distribution: KUbuntu, Fedora (KDE), PI OS
Posts: 593
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Haven't used optical media in years now. All been replaced by external USB HDD and SSD drives (I use /ext4 format). Cheaper, faster, and more compact for external storage. I do have a portable USB Blu-ray/DVD/CD read/writer that I keep around just in case, but really optical storage isn't that practical any more in a TB world.
Last edited by rclark; 12-15-2024 at 03:53 PM.
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12-16-2024, 06:04 PM
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Moderator
Registered: Mar 2008
Posts: 22,235
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I have some M-disc that I horded before they were hard to find.
Have a number of 3.5 in floppies too.
Doubt I will ever use either of them.
Looks like plenty of DVD discs are for sale online??
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