So my family has a few containers of unused blank dvds that are just lying around collecting dust. i know dvds are almost useless because of streaming, but can they still be used. Theses dvds can only be written to once and they only have like 3 gb of storage on them, can they still be used?, do they have a use?
You can do backups that span many disks. Optical Media is much longer lasting than magnetic media.
Most of my backup DVDs I created 10 years ago are no longer readable. So I wouldn’t recomment that for long term storage.
I have burned cds and dvds from much longer ago than 10 years and they’re still perfect when i go to get something from them.
Single-write are much more stable than rewritable.