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So my family has a few containers of unused blank dvds that are just lying around collecting dust. i know dvds are almost useless because of streaming, but can they still be used. Theses dvds can only be written to once and they only have like 3 gb of storage on them, can they still be used?, do they have a use?

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[โ€“] [email protected] 6 points 1 year ago (3 children)

You can do backups that span many disks. Optical Media is much longer lasting than magnetic media.

[โ€“] [email protected] 6 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Most of my backup DVDs I created 10 years ago are no longer readable. So I wouldn't recomment that for long term storage.

[โ€“] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago

Single-write are much more stable than rewritable.

[โ€“] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago

I have burned cds and dvds from much longer ago than 10 years and they're still perfect when i go to get something from them.