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Re:Sony and Panasonic announce the Archival Disc format by Tepix on Monday March 10, 2014 @06:47AM (#7372232)
What about M-Disc? The DVD-writers that can write them are just as cheap as normal ones and I think $4 for a DVD-R is acceptable for long term storage. They announced that they would offer Blu-Ray media soon but I haven't seen them for sale.
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Re:Sony and Panasonic announce the Archival Disc format by mashmac2 on Monday March 10, 2014 @07:03AM (#7372280)
http://www.mdisc.com/what-is-mdisc/ for those curious - it appears to be a stronger archival DVD/blu-ray that is already burn-able on certain drives that are on the market.
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Re:Sony and Panasonic announce the Archival Disc format by cgore on Monday March 10, 2014 @11:12AM (#7373340)
Has anybody used these? A 1,000-year DVD/Blu-Ray sounds good. I would use it if it is actually reliable. (Actually just want decades, but centuries is better.)
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Re:Sony and Panasonic announce the Archival Disc format by post_break on Monday March 10, 2014 @01:15PM (#7374227)
Non LTH BD-R has an estimated lifetime of 50 years if stored properly. 40 cents a disk. In a cd case, in your closet.

M-Disk 1000 years, same storage idea. $5 a disc.

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