I heard about magneto-optical disks on a internet-curiosity spree.
Apparently, they were around just before the dawn of CDs, and are still around in Japan.
Any other details? Experiences? Long-term durability?
Seems like every long-term storage has major issues: DVD/CD, disk rot, jitter and dye deteroriation; hard disk and other magnetic media have issues with magnetic stability, driver board issues, spindle this or that; tapes get stretched, decay, separation of oxide layer etc etc. One person even advised (which seems the best overall) the concept of not storage, but movage; you upgrade and translate into the current primary working format, but that can be irrelevant for disk images, encoded archives, large volumes of text or word processing documents. (If I had 5K+ MacWrite documents, which I don't, I'd need some major motivation to copy all of them to modern formats.)
Note that floptical disks are not the same as magneto-optical disks.
Apparently, they were around just before the dawn of CDs, and are still around in Japan.
Any other details? Experiences? Long-term durability?
Seems like every long-term storage has major issues: DVD/CD, disk rot, jitter and dye deteroriation; hard disk and other magnetic media have issues with magnetic stability, driver board issues, spindle this or that; tapes get stretched, decay, separation of oxide layer etc etc. One person even advised (which seems the best overall) the concept of not storage, but movage; you upgrade and translate into the current primary working format, but that can be irrelevant for disk images, encoded archives, large volumes of text or word processing documents. (If I had 5K+ MacWrite documents, which I don't, I'd need some major motivation to copy all of them to modern formats.)
Note that floptical disks are not the same as magneto-optical disks.