on 2012-06-04 10:54 Godfrey DiGiorgi wrote
Sorry - writable optical media fail MUCH faster than hard drives, have less capacity, and are much more maintenance work. I wouldn't touch Blue-Ray for archive storage, don't bother with DVD either.
indeed, i have a spindle of 90 or so DVD-R blanks that have been a paper weight in my office for several years; if someone wants them …
but yeah, somehow i have managed to hang onto the first files i produced on a Mac (MacPaint files from 1985, which the OS can _still_ render); after spending their first few years on a floppy disk, they've been moving from hard drive to hard drive ever since
Rotating media hard drives are cheap and are currently the most reliable and best bang for the buck capacity wise.
and with a good backup and verification strategy, will demonstrably last many decades
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