Physical Media Appreciation Thread

[NOXIN]

I always think to disc rot first whenever people treat disc's specifically as an arbiter of preservation. Nothing lasts forever.

But I think disc rot takes like 20 or 30 years to happen and that's enough time to keep on transferring your data. Correct me if I'm wrong on this.

I've heard thirty years too. I just ripped my wife's Spice Girls CD from like 1998 with all tracks working perfectly, so I'm curious to see how well it plays in another few years.

Disc rot is probably real and my CD collection will be worthless in about ten years but eh, at least my super autistic obscure artists got some money for their effort.

 

[Mad_Dog]

My boomer dad is holding onto a huge stack of these containing important backups. In typical boomer fashion he kept the floppies but not the drive or the HDD of the computer the backups came from.

Does he also have a stash of these? (missing power cables optional)

 

[PovertySprocket]

Does he also have a stash of these? (missing power cables optional)
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No, but if he did he'd probably plug any supply that fits in the hole without looking up voltage and polarity.

 

[Mad_Dog]

No, but if he did he'd probably plug any supply that fits in the hole without looking up voltage and polarity.

Son, can you fix the remote?

 

[Ibanez RG 350EX]

The fetishization of physical media is powerfully gay and it never ceases to amaze me how people act as if the only available options for storing data are a warehouse full of discs or outsourcing everything to streaming or cloud services. Were you guys around in the 2000s? We used to have this thing called "local storage" back in the dark ages before ubiquitous high-speed Internet.

I can store an ungodly amount of data on hard drives the size of a deck of playing cards rather than filling up my house with plastic garbage and I can employ all kinds of arbitrarily sophisticated tools to keep an eye on the integrity of that data in real time rather than just hoping my 40-year-old CDs don't bit-rot, which they inevitably will.

 

[Patrick Bait-man]

I can store an ungodly amount of data on hard drives the size of a deck of playing cards rather than filling up my house with plastic garbage and I can employ all kinds of arbitrarily sophisticated tools to keep an eye on the integrity of that data in real time rather than just hoping my 40-year-old CDs don't bit-rot, which they inevitably will.

 

[Ibanez RG 350EX]

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[74164978231]

The fetishization of physical media is powerfully gay and it never ceases to amaze me how people act as if the only available options for storing data are a warehouse full of discs or outsourcing everything to streaming or cloud services. Were you guys around in the 2000s? We used to have this thing called "local storage" back in the dark ages before ubiquitous high-speed Internet.

Typical soap opera effect enthusiast.

 

[Mad_Dog]

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I did that as a kid, but without the bag and bending the other way, towards me. It exploded in my face, and a tiny shard flew right into my left eyelid. The CD gods spared my eye that day, and I've had a healthy fear of CDs ever since.

 

[SSj_Ness (Yiffed)]

God bless Nintendo. Sony & Microsoft are probably going all-digital next-gen, Nintendo will be the last one still using physical media.