@brood The most cost-effective archival medium that I have found are M-Disc BluRay discs (25GB or 100GB for ~$2.60 / ~$13 respectively) with a stated 1000 year lifespan under controlled conditions that aren't too onerous.
@hazelnot its effort no doubt. cost not bad. long run worth it IMHO. i still use old fashioned cheap drives that are slower but shrug. have a good backup routine. have i had drives fail in the past? yup.
@hazelnot@brood It probably is cheaper to buy drives or CDs/DVDs in the long run. I think most of us end up singing up to different streaming services chasing the small collection or movies and show we watch over and over again
@brood@hazelnot HDDs are mostly fine anyway.
A lot of media, movies, pictures, music, games pre-2019 etc. are fine on slower storage.
I have several 1TB drives I use solely to archive my games collections and they've never let me down aside from a preowned drive I took a gamble on because of its extra capacity.
@Bigblue1106@brood@hazelnot How do you handle the HDDs? An external reader? I've been thinking of using some for archival, but not sure it having them online 24/7 is a good idea.
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