Friendly reminder that if you do not regularly use optical media, then you are a literal goycattle NPC.

>>105891187 (OP)
Why are you being an elitist about what medium you use to beam Jewish propaganda directly into your brain?

>>105891187 (OP)
>if you don't consume this disposable plastic product I get emotional!

>>105891187 (OP)
Why would I use optical media when I can download the optical media to my hard disk and then never have to deal with optical media?

Too slow and cumbersome. Use USB sticks instead.

>>105891187 (OP)
>using optical media
k h e k
dumb retard

>>105891230
>>105891265
>I love owning nothing and being happy

>>105891230
Seeking validation for burning a stack of old discs isn't elitist

Disc rot
Shatters
Have to keep cleaning them

I bought the discless PS5 and am happy.

>>105891187 (OP)
Look man, just get with the times bro. It's just slop man, it doesn't matter bro. I'm subscribed to five different movie services and I'm not a goycattle. Just fucking do it man, nothing matters bro. It's all so pointless man.
>pops Prozac and estrogen
Are you, like, a faggot bro? Just fucking stream shit man.

i cleaned my room during covid and threw out all my discs

I could just keep the on my hardrive instead

>>105891187 (OP)
It feels good to be a real human being.

>>105892586
Blu rays don't rot. How the hell did you manager to shatter an optical disk? And just don't get them dirty in the first place.

not only do I still have Blu-Rays, DVDs, and CDs, I even still have a few Laserdiscs
moving is a bitch, I admit

REMINDER
If you have an optical media collection NOW is the time to start digitizing it.
DVDs manufactured by Warner Bros around 2007 are already succumbing to disc rot. Unliked scratches and buffs, rot cannot be fixed.
Make a digital copy of your collection now, and copy that shit to multiple hard disks, cloud storage, etc

Look up MakeMKV and Handbrake to get started today

>>105893949
Backups are good to have, but unless the discs were faulty they're not going to rot if stored properly. I have plenty of 20 year old and older DVDs that play just fine, I even have a few DVD-R that old that still work..

I want more mini discs. Put them back into production. I also use some flash media.

>>105892108
Why do I need to own it when I can just download it illegally for free though? It makes no sense to pay for media ever.

>>105893949
THIS. The brutal truth is you only use optical media for storage if you're POOR. Everyone else can just keep their flash drives/SD cards stored in their refrigerator in a ziplok bag/vacuum sealed.

For whatever reason the relationship between SSD data retention and storage temperature while said SSD is powered off seems to be some kind of esoteric knowledge when it's really simple: every 5C cooler your SSD is store at you double the data retention. So you roughly get:

4 years at 20C
8 years at 15C
16 years at 10C
32 years at 5C

Fridges SHOULD maintain temps below 5C. You're welcome anons.

>>105894510
>you only use optical media for storage if you're POOR
or if we started collecting it way before flash drives/SD cards were available, and we've just continued on because we like it

>>105894510
ORRRRRR if you're not as autistic, just boot up your flash drive/SD once a year and let it idle for a few hours (or while you sleep) hooked up to your computer's USB port. This auto-refreshes the cells and you get another 4 years of data retention from that point on in your drawer.

>>105894620
If you did you would have digitized everything. Have fun finding the bitrotted sections of video lol.

>>105894645
if something is bitrotted, i can just download it from the 'net, can't i?
besides, i did digitize most of it. those torrents come from somewhere, you know

>>105891187 (OP)
don't give a fuck still hoarding hdd to store things
call me when bluray have a 10TB capacity

>>105891187 (OP)
If you do not regularly use pirated media, then you are a literal goycattle NPC.

>>105894887
jokes on you, i rip all my content from the library

Only physical discs I have is the complete series of my favorite anime. But because I don't have anything to play them with I just have it for collection purposes and I watch the copy I torrented instead

>>105891187 (OP)
>Friendly reminder that if you do not regularly use magnetic media, then you are a literal goycattle NPC.
>Friendly reminder that if you do not regularly use vinyl media, then you are a literal goycattle NPC.

>>105892108
Even though I have optical media, I have ripped most of it so I rarely have to use the discs.

>>105892108
let's see you play your physical copy of Ubisoft's The Crew

OH WAIT

>>105894510
For long term storage you should use tapes anyway.

>>105897481
Refrigerated SSDs can exceed the lifespan of tape drives and that's assuming that you NEVER access them after they've been put in refrigeration. Sure tape drives are cheaper per GB but jesus christ what a nightmare to access them...

>>105891187 (OP)
>>105895670
>doesnt use punch cards and a sharp stick for her media
fucking filthy normgroid casuals

Is this a storage thread?

What do you guys do with shit like family photos/videos? I've got a shitton of stuff from y a7IV. Photos are big enough, but also tons of 4k stuff.

Tape drives work in theory, but are expensive as fuck to get into and nobody but me will know what the fuck to do with them. For now, I just have everything on a NAS, backed up to another NAS and the most important stuff backed up to external HDDs.

Maybe M-disk blurays for the bare minimum shit.

Yes, buy the bluray goy, otherwise you're a goy

my CDs I burned 25 years ago are starting to corrupt and skip. I'm not falling for this shit again.

>>105898790
If it's for family, print the good pictures from a printshop. You'll die and your backups will get trashed, but kids/relatives will keep a trunk full of photos forever unless they truly just don't care (50/50).

>>105894024
>unless the discs were faulty
that is exactly the case. there was a DVD production factory in that era that pumped out absolute shit quality discs which Warner Bros used for a ton of releases.
https://docs.google.com/document/d/1CyLGHyuhA2mfhPr4Bkyj8RAapl_0LTmN/edit?tab=t.0

>>105897177
Ross will fix this.

>>105897481
Fuck are you talking about? Burned discs are far more reliable long term storage solution than magnetic tape.

>>105891187 (OP)

>>105891187 (OP)
why should I go out of my way to inconvenience myself and add extra steps to doing the same things? what? I'm gonna buy a game on Steam, burn it onto a disc, and plop that disc in whenever I want to play said game? do the same (except the buying part) with movies and music? now I do have a disc reader in my rig, but not everyone does (I think this is retarded and I hate that modern PC cases rarely have space for them), and the use case is digitizing FROM discs

any other tapechads in here?

>>105894629
fuck man I needed to sleep tonight

>>105901959
on more than one occasion i've seen an LTO drive selling second hand for something i could afford, and i've been tempted, but i haven't done it yet. i still want to just for the experience of it even though i don't /really/ need it

I want to preserve my blu ray collection which drive will accomplish that. I'm tired of getting burned by streaming services and plan to buy a shit ton of movies and series when they regularly crater off during holiday sales.

>>105891187 (OP)
I love my premium blu-ray burner.