- IIRC, "M-Disc" branded discs stopped being "M-Disc"-spec at some point, but since it's quite a niche product that peaked (over?) a decade ago, it's hard to find any definitive information about this in 2026. It's a shame because I liked the format. I'd be glad to see any form of confirmation or correction.
by KillenBoek
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- Still using m-disc for family photo albums and having them in the bug out bag in case something goes wrong. Inexpensive and light. Such a shame the disk format is dying.
by AshamedCaptain
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- I still use optical discs for my personal backups and have done since 95. My biggest concern is whether I will still be able to buy new drives and blank media in 10, 20 years. Or physical media at all...
Please do not say LTO tapes. The drives are huge, noisy, expensive, and they have a very quick deprecation policy (new drives cant use old tapes).
by svilen_dobrev
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- [2016]
would be interesting how that M-disc looks - and reads - today 10 years later..
- Cool, but the method of verifying the data (playing back the movie) seems non-optimal. The movie could have had some data corruption that went unnoticed.
by torstenvl
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- Tangential, but what's up lately with anti-responsive design like this?
Modern mobile browsers can render traditional sites just fine. It was the killer feature of the original iPhone.
So I really fail to understand why you'd make a mobile version of your site that completely breaks on mobile.
by cainxinth
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- I’ve always been skeptical of niche archival formats, even ones as robust as this. Even if the technology itself is sound, companies go out of business and formats go obsolete. I’ve been using plain old mirrored spinning hard drives for years. And for parts of my archive, I give copies to friends and family for added redundancy.
- Does anyone know the control disc used (http://www.microscopy-uk.org.uk/mag/imgsep16/m-disc-test3.jp...) was HTL or LTH?
- Why is nobody talking about LTO tapes, and why are the drives still so expensive?
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