Interesting though — the new cool technology is a flash disk for the os and boot. Faster boot time, etc.
Wonder what will happen when the disks start failing. Maybe they are more reliable and redundant.
CD and DVD media has a limited shelf life, too ~ 10 years at best. The cheap disks, just a couple of years. Storage is important, too. Certainly, they guarantee the media life for 20 years, etc. but will only replace the defective disk — so sorry that your family pictures are gone.
The down side of our modern digital lives — all of the families pictures are on digital media. Many people don't back up their hard drives and then of course, there is the shelf life of the media.
I have good ol family photographs that are 110 years old. No way digital media will last that long.
I bought a raid drive sever plus I back it up to two places.
Interesting.
Thanks