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With most digital media I'm convinced it is the quality/size of the hardware more so than the signal on it. Businesses still use tape backup for their data since most tape systems are physically much more robust, and the media can survive it's player. LDs rot just like DVDs. Hard drives would be worlds better if they were not SO DAMN TINY/sensitive to dust....Many of their internal read parts are ridiculously fragile. That would be forgivable if the discs did not need a semiconductor fab grade clean-room to handle and could instead be user swapped from drive to drive when the read components die. Soild State memory can be fairly reliable (some variants are worse than others), but each bit has a rated number of write cycles....So for applications where your are erasing and re-writing repeatedly life span is finite...I've also seen Linux/Windows devices use the same device and have a hidden war over data formatting till the device surrenders. Bad software can brake some devices...
Right now I'm pissed with Windows Especially Windows10...They have been doing auto update restarts with NO warning to let me save my work, and since last night my damn laptop ain't reading ANY USB memory drives (I'm sure the drives are fine), despite still working with my USB mouse....About 2012 every bit of software I had was ROCK solid stable and reliable...Lately it feels like Windows and Mozilla are not trying or testing so much as throwing crap at the wall in hopes something will stick....
On a positive note there is a special variant of DVD-BD that is supposed to have much longer life than normal variants. I forget the name, but it uses a modification of read-write tech/format, and disc material IIRC. It is a good bit more expensive though.
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