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is someone really still using 5 inch discs any more?
when there are bluray sales at Amazon or Walmart for less than $10 per disc, there's still a use for these.
when all the data gets destroyed to to EMP,
the ones that had disks will rule the world.
As a photographer that needs to archive several GB of images every week, yes these are still useful. It's pretty easy to find the single layer 25GB discs for about sixty cents.
hey pcb, optical discs are not a good medium for archiving anything.
I've had DVDs that I burnt myself 6 or 7 years ago go bad on me.
^ It's been hit or miss for the longevity of discs I've burnt over the years, if something is valuable I make two copies on two different batches (and brands) of media.
That's a lot of porno to have two copies of...
I make three copies, using at least two different brands and two different burners. I ALWAYS do a verify after the burn. I then store them properly in a couple of cool, dry, fireproof safes, one of which is off site. In addition I maintain a copy on a hard drive, mostly for convenience. I migrate my archives to new media every few years as the technology advances. For example, my DVD archives have all been copied and verified to BD-R (I still have the DVD copies, however) and my BD-R archives will eventually be migrated to whatever replaces it.
No technology is permanent or fail safe. You take precautions based on your budget and how important you consider the content that you want to preserve. I'm comfortable with the system that I use, but would certainly be interested if someone wants to propose something better.