The storage apocalypse has arrived. An old friend drops by to talk survival strategies as prices explode, and we pitch our own unapologetically 90s approach to stretching storage.

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• Smart Buy 10 Pack Bd-r Dl 50gb 6X Blu-ray Double Layer Recordable Disc
• BlueVault — A top-quality TUI app to manage Blu-ray cold storage archives on Linux.
• Pick: Kopia — Cross-platform backup tool for Windows, macOS & Linux with fast, incremental backups, client-side end-to-end encryption, compression and data deduplication. CLI and GUI included.
• Kopia Repository Server
• Pick: PowerISO — Create, Burn, Mount, Edit, Compress, Encrypt, Split, Extract ISO file, ISO/BIN converter, Virtual Drive
• PowerISO on Flathub
• Pick: CDEmu — CDemu is a software suite designed to emulate an optical drive and disc on the Linux operating system.
• Tellico — Collection management software, free and simple.