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minus-squareIlovethebomb@lemm.eelinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up3·3 months agoThe fuck are you backing up that you have 20tb of?
minus-squaremostlikelyaperson@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up3·3 months agoAlso I feel like at that point you might as well go tape rather than fiddle around with 40 Blu-rays.
minus-squareIlovethebomb@lemm.eelinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up2·3 months agoI mean, tapes just don’t have the same longetivity as an archive grade optical disc, but it’s probably fine for your collection of porn and pirated movies.
minus-squaremostlikelyaperson@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up3·3 months agoNot wrong, but 30 years are probably good enough for most backup cases
minus-squareIlovethebomb@lemm.eelinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up1·3 months agoMost likely. Things like photos you want to live forever though, you never know what people will be interested in in the future.
minus-squarefmstrat@lemmy.nowsci.comlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up1·3 months agoPhotographer, videographer mostly, buy also data hoarder, etc. I still have all my pre-AOL data, too.
The fuck are you backing up that you have 20tb of?
Also I feel like at that point you might as well go tape rather than fiddle around with 40 Blu-rays.
I mean, tapes just don’t have the same longetivity as an archive grade optical disc, but it’s probably fine for your collection of porn and pirated movies.
Not wrong, but 30 years are probably good enough for most backup cases
Most likely. Things like photos you want to live forever though, you never know what people will be interested in in the future.
Photographer, videographer mostly, buy also data hoarder, etc. I still have all my pre-AOL data, too.