discs

Hopefully this will trigger progress in increasing density of optical discs and/or decreasing cost of high capacity discs and writers for consumer market.

I also periodically burn my library to BluRay discs (thankfully my library is now small enough to fit on 2x50GB discs).

Discs were $12-15 for a very long time, singles were economically stupid, and dealing with crap like scratched discs or skipping in the car was the norm.

Rewritable discs are bad, but write-once discs aren't.

It doesn't play games you already own on discs (BD, not DVD in the case of PS3).

Someone told me, you could release your game on Sony console and simply get a factory to produce your game discs.

Perhaps Amazon's Glacier center operates in a lights-out environment with a decreased oxygen environment to increase the life span of the discs.

The common Blu-Ray media (BD-R, not BD-R LTH) discs use a non-organic dye and should be more resilient than DVD-R or CD-R media.

Born '85, had no idea that compact discs (CD) existed until '94.

I am not doing incrementals, so it is pretty unlikely that I'll ever use my oldest burned discs for recovery.

In 5 years people are unlikely to be shoving discs into things.

Once I use the RAW files, I rarely need them, that's why I store them in Blue-ray discs as a backup.

The media are in the form of cartridges with 12 discs in each cartridge, and Sony claims that the media is "50 year rated".

Where I live, a 3 pack of 25GB MDiscs runs around $20 vs $70 for a spindle of 25 RiData 50GB discs.