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Condor 3 months ago
Still burning them and on the way to buy even more of them. Optical memory is still more resistant than electrical charges into chips
Many of them are HTL (inorganic) which is the entire point of M-Discs, using an inorganic instead of organic dye. There are LTH BD-Rs (organic dyes) which are shit, but any HTL one should work for medium term archival, and you can identify them in a disc reader software. Verbatim has a MABL BD-R thing too, which burns off metal instead of changing a dye.
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BTCingularity 3 months ago
Nice I was thinking of getting an mdisk arrangement. What is your set up? and do you still think it is the optimal long term storage method for you?
Yes, and they likely use better production lines than their unlabeled stuff. I believe all “non-organic” HTL Blu-Rays use a variation of metal-based layers with permanent changes.
As long as the incredibly thin metal coating is strong. Lots of pressed retail CDs & DVDs succumbed to bit rot due to faulty data layers.
I've never used BD much. I didn't think I've had a device with a disc slot since my Wii 😂 the only reason I know is from helping an audiophile friend rip his CD collection to flac when he had some old discs start to discolour & flake. Got him very stressed out.