New Optical Storage standard developed - Archival Disc
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TheDeeGee
I doubt this has a feature with software becoming Digital Downloads.
And for storage i think it's cheaper to get an External HDD.
Loophole35
You forget once a disk is written and stored it does not fail and external HDD is another story.
mjw
Needs to be cheaper per GB (a lot cheaper) than HDD otherwise, what's the point?
heffeque
Not true. Disks deteriorate over time. Try to play a CD-R from a couple decades ago and see if it's still working.
sykozis
everything deteriorates over time....
I do look forward to a new optical disc standard though. Hopefully it's not insanely priced like every other optical disc standard at launch.
TheDeeGee
I'm done with Optical Drives, atleast inside my Case. All i got is a Fan Controller in my Bay.
For CD/DVD needs i got a USB DVD Writer which 99.9% of the time is eating dust.
Darkest
I can see where this could have uses, but I stopped using optical disks a long time ago. My main rig doesn't even have an optical drive. The rare time I buy one is the odd music album, and that gets ripped to a hard drive and boxed away.
Loophole35
Find me a 20+ year old CD-R.
This will get used trust me. Facebook uses BD for archive data. I feel sorry for their archives department when the 1TB disks come as they will have to move all that data.
heffeque
CD-R were introduced in 1988 and... yep, we're getting old, it's been 26 years since then.
Loophole35
The specs were introduced in 1988 consumer side $35,000 burners showed up in 1990. They didn't drop below the $1,000 mark till 1995. So yeah the tech was there but not "truly" accessible until the late 90's.
PhazeDelta1
I have quite a fewCD-R's that were recorded to in the late 90's that play just fine.
Pill Monster
Home users won't be seeing these discs anytime in the near future anyway, because the new standard applies to Professional Grade equipment not Consumer grade.
Sony/Panasonic and other studios wanted a safer, more reliable method of storing film archives for long periods of time. And by "long periods" I mean 50-100yrs or more...lol
heffeque
And probably quite a few that don't.
PhazeDelta1
I got rid of those. 😀
MonstroMart
I have a U2 THe Joshua Tree cd printed in 1987 and it is still working as a new one.
sykozis
That really doesn't mean much. Throw it out in the sun for a few years and see what happens. Everything eventually deteriorates. It's a fact of life. Nothing will last forever.
Loophole35
But as stated by me and Pill this will be used for archiving. Which means it will be stored away from light and will not be handled much if at all.
sykozis
It'll still deteriorate over time. There's no way to prevent deterioration. All they're doing is trying to slow it as much as possible....which is really all they need to do. By the time the media deteriorates enough to become an issue, it will have been replaced by something better anyway. The same was true of CDs and DVDs for data storage.
Redemption80
Nice to know they are working on something, but would be nice to know if there is a consumer version being worked on also.
I personally have no problems downloading huge amounts of data, but i know others don't have the time or bandwidth to do so, while others have caps so are just unable to switch to digital downloads.
With 4k arriving in the next few years, i'm assuming they must be working on something, even with H265 they will still need several hundred GB for a movie.
RED_404
Currently using 1.5TB tapes for long-term archiving at work. @$240 a tape this may be a good long term alternative to the tapes that go straight over the sneaker net to the cave. Yes, literally a cave.
