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		bluthru on Jan 30, 2014 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Facebook's new optical storage solution [video] Do rewritable blurays last as long as write-once discs?

Nagyman on Jan 30, 2014 [–]

In the video he said those discs last 50 years, but that you can get them up to 1000 years.

tim333 on Jan 30, 2014 | [–]

I wonder how they figure that. I wouldn't want to bet on them being ok in 3014.

millstone on Jan 30, 2014 | | [–]

They don't have to last 1000 years. They just have to outlast the receipt.

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