Hello,
So I was looking at putting some YT videos on DVD to store for long-term (They’re about Silent Hill) to include in a box I have full of SH items, so in the future many years down the line I can watch the DVD to see gameplay but also documentary essay explaining the game and story because I likely won’t be able to play the game in the future or those videos could be deleted.
I was going to use Thumb Drives until I was recommended to use DVD by someone on here since they have a longer life.
I was going to use normal DVD-R, but it didn’t have enough storage and I didn’t want to use a lot of DVDS, so I started looking at DVD-R+DL because they have 4hr Storage each. I cannot find any Archival-Quality versions of DL though, only the DVD-R version.
The purpose of this is to ask what type of DVD should I use for long-term data storage in hopes I can watch these videos way long down the line? I see some DVDs can last 100+ years, but I’m unsure about how well DVD-R would be, and especially DVD-R+DL (what I want to use?) if I am supposed to use Archival Quality and not DL, then I’ll just have to split it among a lot of DVD-R Archival then.
I also heard about DVD rot but I do not know a lot about it and how it will affect me. It will be stored in DVD cases inside of a plastic storage box.
Thank you