Six-month rewritable DVD endurance test crowns winner with 1,000 rewrites, shows the best discs are no longer manufactured — six month of tests find TDK is a clear leader, Verbatim and Memorex didn’t do well
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The scale of tests was admittedly restricted due to both time and resources.

The scale of tests was admittedly restricted due to both time and resources.

  • 9point6@lemmy.worldEnglish
    42·
    3 days ago

    Reminded me what an absolute mess recordable disc media was during the early-to-mid-00s.

    Oh you want to write a disc?

    Which type of media do you want? A CD or DVD? R, RW or RAM? Plus or minus?

    Which do you choose? Well it depends on your drive but also kinda the drives you want to read from it too in some cases… Here I’ve got a chart

    • Gerudo@lemmy.zipEnglish
      5·
      3 days ago

      You just gave me flashbacks working tech retail at the time and everyone asking, but we were powerless to tell them what they needed. Our answer was always try the most popular version and if it doesn’t work out, write down the dvd symbol on your drive and come back.

  • Xenny@lemmy.worldEnglish
    11·
    3 days ago

    Makes sense. DVD was the defacto standard of physical media for a time. Its an afterthought now. Why make the best rewriteable DVD when mid quality rewritable DVD sell just fine in 2026

      • Glitchvid@lemmy.worldEnglish
        9·
        3 days ago

        Few 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.

        • MalReynolds@slrpnk.netEnglish
          1·
          3 days ago

          Pretty 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.

          • Glitchvid@lemmy.worldEnglish
            1·
            3 days ago

            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.

            My issue with tape is ultimately the cost of drives, most of the time you’re just as well of buying an actual library device.

            Plus managing the tape contents seems difficult.

            If HDD prices ever go back down I’ll probably have to just make a NAS storage appliance.

            • MalReynolds@slrpnk.netEnglish
              1·
              3 days ago

              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.