M-disc is for long term storage, which flash and hard drives are not suitable for.
I’d never even heard of it, I feel like cheap large flash drives and streaming killed the main use cases for these.
cmnybo@discuss.tchncs.de 4 months ago
eco_game@discuss.tchncs.de 4 months ago
I believe Blurays are still a very good medium for long term data storage, like a cold offsite backup.
barsoap@lemm.ee 4 months ago
Isn’t that what tapes are for.
cmnybo@discuss.tchncs.de 4 months ago
Sure, if you have enough data to make the cost of a tape drive worth it.
user224@lemmy.sdf.org 4 months ago
Yes, but at much higher cost.
Natanael@slrpnk.net 4 months ago
Tapes themselves are cheaper, but the drive (and potentially operating cost?) can definitely be higher for the industrial stuff
Fuzzy_Red_Panda@lemm.ee 4 months ago
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.
theangriestbird@beehaw.org 4 months ago
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.