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The reel-to-reel tapes I was transcribing were literally falling apart as they played one last time. Others suffered from the hydroscopic substrate that made them twist and curl. I didn't know about tape baking back then.
I have a media capture kit that includes 4mm and 8mm video, VHS, reel-to-reel and a bunch of adapters. I pipe all the video into a DVD recorder and also an HDMI to USB adapter so I can capture everything twice with one play.
It used to be a somewhat common topic. The failure mode is not having enough hardware for copying from medium A to medium B, such that the bandwidth of the system means that by the time you try to copy the last archive to the new media, either the old media has decayed or you’ve already started copying to a new generation of storage because the oldest records in the new medium is already decaying.
And each generation there’s more to copy, soaking up the improvements in read or write time.
Neither my dad nor I knew how writable media like that worked at the time, and I think we both assumed that, assuming they didn't get scratched, they would last forever. Obviously we were wrong.
> https://blog.dshr.org/2023/08/optical-media-durability-updat...
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M-DISC on HN: https://hn.algolia.com/?query=m-disc&sort=byDate&type=commen...
My understanding is it was something unique for DVDs (which are no longer manufactured) but not much difference anymore for Blu-ray.
[edit] > https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33593967#33595128 BD-R discs using inorganic dyes are durable enough that the M-Disc branding is likely moot
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300GB https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Archival_Disc per https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39165981#39170038