I apologize if this isn’t the correct place to ask this. If not, just point me to the right place, please.
As per the title, I am looking into backing up files - pictures, movies, music, some documents - locally but with little to mo need of having the backup medium hot. I already have a few HDDs lying around but it reaches a point where is becomes bulky and takes up considerable space.
I’ve been thinking of memory cards because they are reasonably affordable and can be stored away easily. But how reliable are those?
I intend to make/save several backup copies.
I’ve searched my local market and what made me think twice about the MDisc is the ease of access to read/write drives for it. Even common DVD read/write drives are getting extremely expensive. The more common external drives feel fragile and the internal drives are hard to find and with very high prices, usually above €100. The concept and format is appealing but for what I intend to keep it feels excessive.
I’ve had good luck with finding perfectly working internal R/W drives on the local scrap market for cheap. I guess still lots of PCs from that era being junked by offices.
Sealed 25-50 GB BD RW media go for ~$1 per disc when they randomly show up in the surplus store.