Optical Media For Digital Data Archiving - My Complete Guide (Jan 2024)
I thought it would be a good idea to try to consolidate everything that I've shared over the past couple of weeks about optical media into one video intended to share as much as I know about using optical media for data archiving at this point in time (Jan 2024 - more specifically the date I'm uploading this video). In this video I cover reasons to use archival, different products across all common optical media types (CD, DVDs, Blu Rays, M-Discs). And some specific products that I'm using and can recommend. View presentation: https://online.fliphtml5.com/xgkbe/nwdt/ == Timestamps == Intro - 00:00 Why use optical media in 2024? - 02:05 Why optical is good for archival - 07:00 Optical vs HDD, SSD & LTO data rot - 11:00 Optical for offsite archival and backup - 14:00 Why WORM can be advantageous - 15:00 Archival grade CDs and DVDs by Verbatim - 18:00 Engineering of archival CDs and DVDs - 19:00 Why use CDs and DVDs - 20:00 Canadian Conservation Institute - 22:30 HTL vs LTH Blu Ray 23:00 Blu Ray LTH 23:30 MABL - 24:30 Verbatim "key technologies" - 25:00 The M-Disc "controversy" - 27:00 128GB Sony BDXL - 28:30 Amazon Japan - 29:30 Why I'm not worried about deprecation - 32:00 Regular Verbatim HTL discs - 35:00 Sony BD-R media - 37:00 Panasonic and JVC BD-R media - 38:00 Conclusions - 39:00
I thought it would be a good idea to try to consolidate everything that I've shared over the past couple of weeks about optical media into one video intended to share as much as I know about using optical media for data archiving at this point in time (Jan 2024 - more specifically the date I'm uploading this video). In this video I cover reasons to use archival, different products across all common optical media types (CD, DVDs, Blu Rays, M-Discs). And some specific products that I'm using and can recommend. View presentation: https://online.fliphtml5.com/xgkbe/nwdt/ == Timestamps == Intro - 00:00 Why use optical media in 2024? - 02:05 Why optical is good for archival - 07:00 Optical vs HDD, SSD & LTO data rot - 11:00 Optical for offsite archival and backup - 14:00 Why WORM can be advantageous - 15:00 Archival grade CDs and DVDs by Verbatim - 18:00 Engineering of archival CDs and DVDs - 19:00 Why use CDs and DVDs - 20:00 Canadian Conservation Institute - 22:30 HTL vs LTH Blu Ray 23:00 Blu Ray LTH 23:30 MABL - 24:30 Verbatim "key technologies" - 25:00 The M-Disc "controversy" - 27:00 128GB Sony BDXL - 28:30 Amazon Japan - 29:30 Why I'm not worried about deprecation - 32:00 Regular Verbatim HTL discs - 35:00 Sony BD-R media - 37:00 Panasonic and JVC BD-R media - 38:00 Conclusions - 39:00