Honestly surprised, i thought blu-ray m-disc was moderately popular

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I’d never even heard of it, I feel like cheap large flash drives and streaming killed the main use cases for these.

M-disc is for long term storage, which flash and hard drives are not suitable for.

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i think that’s it. We used to use CD-Rs and DVD-Rs to record playlists and movies, respectively. Data hoarders today will prefer multi-hard drive servers over burning everything to Bluray, and for one-time file transfers, we have flash drives and online file shares. I just can’t think of a use case for BR-R that isn’t better served by a different technology.

I believe Blurays are still a very good medium for long term data storage, like a cold offsite backup.

Isn’t that what tapes are for.

Sure, if you have enough data to make the cost of a tape drive worth it.

Yes, but at much higher cost.

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Tapes themselves are cheaper, but the drive (and potentially operating cost?) can definitely be higher for the industrial stuff

Presumably when we’re talking off-site backups we’re talking about a separate company sitting somewhere in an abandoned nuclear bunker which can justify the price of a tape drive or twenty.

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When the tape drive fails and eats your tape in the process, you better hope you have a second backup or you’ll be crying salty salty tears.

I worked in the service center for a tape-drive manufacturer and I would routinely see the drives we got back for repair. They were often taken apart by the customer in a frantic and desperate attempt to get their cassette out. The cassette was almost always still in there though, with multiple feet of tape snagged and wound around everything.

Not as profitable as charging someone licensing fees ?

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