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Netflix Discs is going away, where will you rent/buy disc based media?
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Data redundancy exists, and tape backups is a completely different technology then CDs/DVDs/Blueray/etc, which is what this topic is about. Then I should be an easy block for you.
Tape is magnetic media and doesn’t really last long at all.
Optical media is also immune to many effects which would be likely to erase large amounts of data, such as EMP or solar radiation.
Blu-Ray discs and DVDs which last as long as 1000 years can be obtained quite cheaply, and there are optical storage media which last indefinitely, but they’re expensive.
Tape, hard drives, you’re lucky if they last 30 years.