Rekall IncorporatedThe scale of tests was admittedly restricted due to both time and resources.
XennyAre blu rays the standard now? I haven’t burned anything in years.
GlitchvidFew manufacturers of burnable BD media these days. Sony left the market uh, I think last year.
Verbatim has said they’ll continue making them, as far as I can tell they’re the only company doing BDXLs — some are doing single layer.
For WORM backup media Blu-Ray is basically what we’ve got, and it’s concerning basically only one company is making it. Pioneer also left the player market so the quality of reading/writing devices is also getting questionable.
Mp3 killed the dvd star
MalReynoldsPretty sure quality in BD is about the compound in the disks that actually gets ‘burned’, the organic dye ones die ~5yrs, but the metal ones are good for ~100 (it is theorized). Unfortunately AFAIK there are no burners being made anymore so it’s a bit of a dead end. Shame, 100GB is good for photos and stuff, but pretty expensive $/TB seeing as they charge like wounded bulls.
I’ve actually been looking at LTO5 as a backup option, due to potential HDD availability issues (thanks AI), lots of faffing around (I don’t want a huge library machine) but quite cheap $/TB once you get going and good longevity. Want two drives eventually though, but I can put offline backup drives into the array as needed to weather the storm.
I thought LG was still manufacturing burners?
Saying that though, the price of those is like $200+ now apparently, which is crazy since I have two I originally got for about $80
LG was still manufacturing burners
They’re not even making players anymore, there’s still burner stock around here and there but BDXL is EOL. More info here
Yah, I’m looking at backing up my NAS, currently use drives (RAID is not a backup). Libraries are physically huge and my needs are not that big, once the pain of the initial 25 or so is over, it’ll only be 1 every month or two. Still mulling it over, got some time, we’ll see what the market does. I have some hope WD is BSing about AI to goose the market price, and of course bubble may go boom anytime.