M-discs

Bourbon Neat

Bourbon Neat

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Melting the mineral means 1 time only, no rewrite, is that correct. M-disc at the moment looks to be right about 10 cents per GB.

What about compared to spinners? Spinners are about the best way to go for cost per GB. A 4TB spinner costs about 3&1/2 cents per GB and is rewritable.

An economy 1TB ssd will be about 38 cents a GB, US coin.

I still have a couple dozen or so cd's and about the same in dvd's packed away in boxes. Masters with copies already distributed, they will probably be tossed in the trash when I die. Gif, tif, pdf, doc, xls.
 
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J-see

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I'm not concerned about the price as much as about the durability and longevity. Once written and done sounds perfect.

25GB is a lot for me since I'm very selective in what I keep but the story of M-disc sounds almost too good.
 
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Its Just Me

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So the discs will last an estimated thousand years. Thats really fantastic! Just one teenie problem.

Will the capability to READ them still be around a thousand years from now?

Who here still has the capability to read floppy discs?

Honestly, it seems like a solution desperately in search of a problem.

JMTCW
 
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wornish

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Its Just Me said:
So the discs will last an estimated thousand years. Thats really fantastic! Just one teenie problem.

Will the capability to READ them still be around a thousand years from now?

Who here still has the capability to read floppy discs?

Honestly, it seems like a solution desperately in search of a problem.

JMTCW
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I was about to post exactly the same thing and you beat me to it.

Totally agree.
 
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RocketCowboy

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Its Just Me said:
Who here still has the capability to read floppy discs?
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In my attic ... assuming the floppy drives survived several years of Texas summers ... I do have some floppy drives and even a Zip drive or two. :)

I'll be happy to store your M-disc drive in my attic with the other relics too. ;)
 
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mikew_RIP

Senior Member
This way of storing information will outlast all the others:D

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J-see

Senior Member
Its Just Me said:
So the discs will last an estimated thousand years. Thats really fantastic! Just one teenie problem.

Will the capability to READ them still be around a thousand years from now?

Who here still has the capability to read floppy discs?

Honestly, it seems like a solution desperately in search of a problem.

JMTCW
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It isn't about a thousand years. A hard drive is about five years before you run the risk of corrupting the content, SSD five to ten depending on how frequent they're used. That's pretty quick you have to start transferring all info.
 
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J-see

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wornish said:
I was about to post exactly the same thing and you beat me to it.

Totally agree.
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The thousand years is a sales pitch. None really takes that serious but everyone knows our current storage has a very limited life expectancy. There's nothing I can store it on them that either lasts long enough or is robust enough to handle punishment.

I'm not in the mood to exchange my external drives every couple of years just to be sure my files aren't corrupting. Even if M-discs only survive 10 years, that's still a better average than everything else considering you don't need to pay too much attention to storing conditions.
 
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