I’m a fan of optical storage and its durability (with reasonable care.)
But the problem is when you need to recover and have 20 Blu-ray Discs with important data scattered about, it takes days.
Or when there is a specific piece of data you want/need and only have a vague idea of where it is/was in history. Maybe if those ultra capacity discs took hold but it looks like the era of optical is ending
Same applies to NAS, how many hours have you spent clicking around shared folders on company NAS / cloud storage, to track down where a specific set of files are actually located?
Search isn't helpful if the stuff wasn't properly indexed.
Sure, but clicking through a folder set on a single managed volume is orders of magnitude easier than rooting through a hundred blue ray DVDs, popping each one into your optical reader in the hopes that it is the correct one, and then having to search within that volume.
> Search isn't helpful if the stuff wasn't properly indexed
Synology indexes file contents similar to Spotlight on the Mac.
rgrep is easier on a nas though