News After 18 years, Blu-ray media production draws to a close — Sony shuts its last factory in Feb

[P.Amini]

I have 4 HDDs:
A pair of WD Caviar Black 1 TB and they are in my main computer from 2011 or 2012
A Seagate Surveillance 3TB and it is in my main computer from 2016
A Seagate SkyHawk Surveillance 10TB and it is in my main computer from 2017 or 2018
All of them are going strong and I haven't lost any bit of my files as far as I can tell.

 

[P.Amini]

This is not a problem, because it is easy to download even 1TB in a DCP package, which is transferred to cinemas for rental copies. The problem is the safety of personal data, the volume of which is growing exponentially, and reliable media for at least 15-20 years, at least, simply do not exist in retail. BDs were the last frontier after HDD and flash, available to the masses. Tapes are inaccessible to ordinary citizens due to the huge price of storage devices.

It feels like we are being systematically squeezed into the clouds, where we have no rights and own nothing...

It's demand, when there is very little demand so there is little to no product.

 

[USAFRet]

I have 4 HDDs:
A pair of WD Caviar Black 1 TB and they are in my main computer from 2011 or 2012
A Seagate Surveillance 3TB and it is in my main computer from 2016
A Seagate SkyHawk Surveillance 10TB and it is in my main computer from 2017 or 2018
All of them are going strong and I haven't lost any bit of my files as far as I can tell.

I had a 5 week old 3TB WD drive go from working perfectly to absolute dead in about 36 hours.
A 7 month old Toshiba Enterprise 8TB go from 0 to 14k+ bad sectors in a week.

A good backup routine save 100% of the data in both cases.

I also have other drives that are a couple of decades old, still working great.