Today I learned that business card CDs exist:

https://noai.duckduckgo.com/?q=business%2Bcard%2BCDs&ia=images&iax=images

#OpticalMedia #CDs

Huge fan of optical drives.

#OpticalMedia #OpticalDrives

Anybody has been using #Mdisc or other optical digital media for archiving important data? What's your experience? DVD or BR? What hardware to burn? Software?

#Prepping #DataHoarder #OpticalMedia #Archiving #Backup #Survival #DVD #BluRay #CD #DataStorage

With Affordable Storage Options Dwindling, Where to Store Our Data?

https://fed.brid.gy/r/https://hackaday.com/2026/04/06/with-affordable-storage-options-dwindling-where-to-store-our-data/

Blurays are the creation of master ragebaiters, you're telling me a single layer bluray witha lil scratch can't be cleanly ripper but a double layer bluray with 5+ scratches including 2 over 5cm long gets ripped fine. Like wtf man this is bullshit.

#bluray #opticalmedia

My media pc is getting worse. Now it won't read some double layer blurays. Am I cooked?

#bluray #mediapc #opticalmedia

Japanese firm stops production of Blu-ray disc drives — Buffalo says there will be no successors to its current trio of portable USB-attached drives

Firm, best known for its networking and hub products, is adjusting its external storage lineup.

apparently the twin peaks full series bluray box containts 10 blurays in one box which is mind boggling to me.

#bluray #twinpeaks #opticalmedia

It has been 0 days since SI units and binary units made me think a storage device had more capacity than it really did.

In this case a BD-R DL disc that supposedly has "50GB" really has 46.6GiB.

#OpticalMedia #Storage