I just need to preserve some old data that I have on my computers, so I was wondering what would be the best way to archive stuff long term.

Blu-ray disks ? Multiple HDDs ? What do you guys suggest ?

    • @riquisimo
      4•11 months ago

      Are those… cheap? They don’t look cheap.

      • @foofiepie
        2•11 months ago

        About £90 for 4 discs, and £30 for the writer, gets you 400Gb storage.

        • @MrsDoyle
          1•11 months ago

          I bought a (nearly) 1Tb thumb drive for £10 last week and copied all my music onto it. I’m thinking of getting a few more for docs and other media and leaving them in my keysafe.

    • @[email protected]
      3•11 months ago

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

      • @afunkysongaday
        2•11 months ago

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

        • @[email protected]
          0•11 months ago

          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
            1•11 months ago

            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.