>>108673680
nothing lasts

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dude I'm actually worried about this. its sort of a dumb reason, but I still got my childhood playstation collection. like thats the only toy I had. I'd be sorta bummed to lose them. they're not rare or anything. but ones every few years I take it out and play it with my friends or whatever and its a blast

>>108674165
softmod.

>>108674165
you're gonna be dead nigga, you're not taking it to the grave.

>>108673680
You can just use butter

>>108673680
Nothing to worry about.
Pressed optical BRs are hermetically sealed. DVDs have a bit more flexibility... in what the standard allows, but still, they will likely outlive you.

>>108673680
Stop hoarding data
Learn to let go

>>108673680
Data isn't stored around there

>>108673680
When do we get 5D optical data storage?

>>108673680
Skill issue.
>Be me
>13
>Family moved to a much nicer neighborhood
>Had a portion of late dad's collection of movies in a trash bag (the others being upstairs)
>Had no use for them
>Leave them in the basement
>12 years later
>Family inclined to get rid of everything to start "anew" again
>Most of the DVDs we had upstairs were cut up and thrown away
>Assumed they were all gone
>Mom mentions wanting to clear the basement
>Check to see what we even put there
>Forgot about the bag i put there
>Take the bag to my room
>Check every single one
>They all work fine
Plan on getting a bunch of jewel cases for them as well.

>>108674636
It's available already.
https://sphotonix.com/memory-crystal
There is no home writer, a pulsed femto laser on its own will cost you 50k € at least.

However, there are methods to use 3D optical storage with blue/green lasers.

If you want something as fancy, there is also
https://piql.com/technology/film/

>>108674165
That's not a dumb reason, those are valuable physical copies of software that you have enjoyed for a very long time. They're irreplaceable.

>>108674165
They could break but if stored airtight dry and with reasonable temperature you should have a good chance to keep the commercially made discs intact.

No, I cannot guarantee that we'll never see these break. Maybe at some point more plastic eating bacteria show up or something.

>>108674165
duckstation.

>>108673680
never seen it in comercially prouced stuff and I have 3000+ dvd movies and tv series and another 1200+ ps1,ps2,360 PC cd and dvds. Ol gold cdrs nand cdrws considtently fail though. Basically CRWS and CDRs will only last about 20 years but I have NEVER seen it on any of the comemrically pressed stuff. I'm in Europe, I know in the USA that some factory fucked up and some warner stuff has issues but really for me disk roy is a myth. My PS1 and PC shit has been moved repeatedly for 30 years and baked in lofts and frozen in garages too and it is all fine.

>>108675603
>commercially made discs intact.
tldr
they basically will outlive you and your kids

>>108673680
If they were going to rot it's because of manufacturing defects. Factory pressed dvds do not "rot" unless you live in a swamp.

>>108674165
Couldn't you dump the disc to a block device, bqck it up, and re-burn it to a new disc whenever?

>>108673680
i'm still waiting to even see a beginning of rot

What about Blu Ray discs are they more resilient to rot?

>>108674165
Emulation is perfect now, hoarding plastic serves no purpose.

>>108673680
bro? your zfs backup servers?

>>108674165
Get youself a chink vacuum packaging machine. It's a pump, a heating element, some plastic on a hinge,should be really cheap like $50 cheap.
Drop your collection in a plastic bad, pull vacuum, seal.
For opening it once a year it's perfect. Bonus points if you drop a bad of silica + a bad of oxygen absorber each time. That would give you basically a true time capsule. Store it away from UV of course.