R: Large discs (Was: Spectre & Meltdown

[Mazzini Alessandro]

I'm  not sure I would use SSD for long term "secure" storage, unless maybe
using enterprise level ones.
Consumer level SSD are, by specifics, guaranteed to retain data for 6 months
if unpowered... any more time means being lucky. Would suck to save, store,
and after some years find the data mangled...

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Da: cctalk [mailto:cctalk-bounces at classiccmp.org] Per conto di Fred Cisin
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Inviato: venerdì 5 gennaio 2018 03:38
A: General Discussion: On-Topic and Off-Topic Posts
Oggetto: Large discs (Was: Spectre & Meltdown

On Thu, 4 Jan 2018, TeoZ wrote:
> Hard drives NEVER keep up. Bragging about how many DVD's (90's 
> technology) you can store on current HD means little to people who 
> have ultra HD Blueray videos that take up to 100GB of space. Heck even 
> a single game download can be 50GB these days.

I'd be interested in hearing about opinions of the 100GB "M-disc".  I've
heard that they have decent longevity, and, the "low" capacity ones are
interchangeable with conventional DVDs.

I can still put 20 100GB DVDs (2017 technology) on a 2TB 2.5" Thin SATA.
However, I'm also looking for multi-terabyte storage.
Are higher capacity DVDs on their way?
Howzbout multi-TearByte SSDs?


> And I wouldn't mind one of those old networked DVD changers (I think 
> Sony sold them commercially) to play around with.

I still want one of the ones that Kieth Hensen designed. Converting it from
CD to DVD would be completely TRIVIAL (finding DVD drives with suitable form
factors and loading options)

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Grumpy Ol' Fred     		cisin at xenosoft.com




> I always wanted Keith Hensen's "Kubik"? CD changer.  Big "carousel 
> slide tray" full of 240?! CDs/DVDs, in a square box, with a drive in 
> each corner.  The drives were SCSI, and the load/unload/select control 
> was RS232. The big square boxes could be stacked, for a larger 
> collection, and there was a trivial mod to make the tray removable, so 
> that the top box could be swapped with as many trays as you had shelf
space for.
>
> 'course hard drives caught up, and I now have about a thousand DVDs in 
> MP4s on a shirt pocket HDD.  (including ALL of the Doctor Who's that 
> were released on DVD, Red Dwarf 1 - XII, Dark Matter, Torchwood, 
> Twilight Zone, Prisoner, Marx Brothers, Doc Martin, One Foot In The 
> Grave, etc.) The DVD images (V .MP4) take over 5TB.