Well I thought about using them instead of buying a hdd, I looked for some comparisons and found a 50 pack of 25gb blu ray drives and a 2tb harddrive for 60, it can store 35 movies more (thinking the movie is 24 GB) than the pack of drives, and that isn’t accounting the disk drive to read the disks (Keep in mind these are just the first results on Google for me)
In my opinion the blu ray drives are more fun to use than clicking a file on a computer, but the storage payoff is huge
What is your opinion on this?
PS: I’m definitely buying the hdd instead
I would only use CDs for long term storage, theyre still the best for that. HDD for convenience.
CDs degrades with time.
Everything degrades with time. Drives degrade faster than disks in storage (assuming you store the disks properly)
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/M-DISC
These are like $10 for 100 Gb. IDK if I love my files that much.
Photos and phone data for nicely in this category. $10 is a steal.
All of my old PS-1 games on 25-30 year old CD-Rs work fine. You’d be lucky to get 10 years from an HDD. I start losing disks in my RAID 5 arrays at about 6 years, and if you are unlucky it could be under 3. I have a 10 year old USB stick (oldest one I haven’t lost yet) that has started failing. So CDs are looking pretty good long term. Would just be a pain to back them all up again, but you might only really have to repeat that once for a lifetime of use.
Commercially manufactured discs have a much longer life span than burned discs
True, but I am talking about CD-Rs, as per above. I assume you know what those are.