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Re:ThinkPads 2020 - X13 AMD - X1 Nano? by lostgame on Tuesday February 18, 2020 @02:57PM (#22359717)
Really? With the cost of SD cards what they are? Like, I can get a 128GB SD card for $30.

That would be 170 CD’s - nearly 30 DVD’s - which will eventually suffer disc rot.

DVD/CD write speeds are very slow, comparatively speaking to even USB 2.0 transfer speeds - and increasing the speed, in my experience, makes exact copies of discs extremely error-prone.

Explain how this is efficient? Genuinely curious, with the price of solid state storage these days.

(I understand even solid state storage has a shelf life, but at least it also can’t be so easily harmed as a CD/DVD)

Re:ThinkPads 2020 - X13 AMD - X1 Nano? by pengaru on Tuesday February 18, 2020 @04:28PM (#22360588)
SD cards are not intended for long-term archival purposes, not 10+ years. They don't go bad per se, but the data on them may not be readable after slowly discharging offline in cold storage for a decade or more.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Data_rot#In_storage

Re:ThinkPads 2020 - X13 AMD - X1 Nano? by 6d6b73 on Tuesday February 18, 2020 @07:32PM (#22361928)
How about bluray? 25GB for ~$0.70. Personally had so many sd cards, and even usb sticks fail that adding another type of storage as a backup for important files really makes a lot of sense.