Best blank media products according to redditors

We found 352 Reddit comments discussing the best blank media products. We ranked the 193 resulting products by number of redditors who mentioned them. Here are the top 20.

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Top Reddit comments about Blank Media Products:

u/joshgarde · 185 pointsr/assholedesign

A triple layer Blu-Ray can hold 100gb - (source) [Non-affiliated link]

u/KerbalGoBoom · 35 pointsr/todayilearned

Nope. Need to include shipping costs. The one you chose has a $4.99 shipping charge, bringing the total to $16.97.

A 10 pack of 1.44mb Verbatim 3.5'' floppy disks costs $14.95 on Amazon with free Prime shipping.

1TB = 1,000,000MB; Thus 1TB = 694,444.44 Floppy Disks

15 694,444.44 = 10,416,666.67

Each floppy disk costs $1.495 each.

$1.495
10,416,666.67 = $15,572,916.672.



If you need a number of TB other than 15, the cost of any amount of TB in floppies can be roughly represented by the following:

x 1.038 10^6

Where 'x' represents the number of TB.

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TL;DR Using the first result on Amazon, including shipping, it would cost a little over $15.7 Million for 15TB of Floppy disks.

u/alf666 · 33 pointsr/MaliciousCompliance

That was probably the point, to add a little bit more malicious compliance on top.

"I said I would recover your files. I never said they would be easy to access, or that I would fix your computer."

On a side note, tape drives are real.

Their data capacity is pretty good, but the seek times (how long it takes to find the data the computer wants) are incredibly slow.

If the son really wanted to mess around with the eldest daughter, he could have a floppy drive and some disks shipped in from Amazon, stored the documents on a floppy disk, then hidden the floppy drive or held it hostage until payment was delivered.

Oh, you need help using it? Pay me $100 up front, and I will teach you once. Make sure to take notes.

u/Fermiac · 28 pointsr/nintendo

The price per gigabyte for flash storage vs. optical disc storage remains as much of a problem today as it was in the N64 era. For a rough idea of the difference, let's look at average consumer prices for a spindle of blu ray discs vs. a high-capacity flash storage device:

http://www.amazon.com/PNY-128GB-MicroSDXC-Memory-P-SDUX128U160G-GE/dp/B00W77C1W4

128GB of flash storage for $30 (an average price of slightly over $0.23/GB), vs.

http://www.amazon.com/Optical-Quantum-OQBDR06LT-50-Blu-Ray-Recordable/dp/B009KXE4VO

about 1.25TB of optical storage for $24 (an average price of <$0.02/GB).

Flash storage remains, to this day, over an order of magnitude more expensive than optical storage per unit of data. Scale that up times hundreds of millions for every game printed and it's easy to see why we're still using discs, and why third parties flocked to Sony in the N64 era. Yes, cartridges have their advantages, but for third parties it's not worth paying literally 10x the price per storage unit - that cuts into their profit margins (especially considering that the size of the average AAA game today is probably something like 30GB minimum).

For that reason alone I sincerely doubt the NX will return to anything like cartridges.

u/robrobk · 18 pointsr/DataHoarder

> Newest Linux Release

> Ubuntu 17.04

> Platform : Windows Vista, Linux, Windows XP, Mac OS X Intel, Windows 7

> Price: $27.95

also on amazon: 100x blank disks for $16

something doesnt add up here...

u/baconstargallacticat · 18 pointsr/apple

Here's a 16GB flash drive for $6.50, and a 50-pack of cd-rws is $9.84. So essentially you're paying 25% more for the same amount of storage on a flash drive, but the time it takes to burn 25 disks is 25x the time to copy 16 gigs to that flash drive. Optical drives are dead.

u/[deleted] · 16 pointsr/TwoXChromosomes

This is right up my alley.

I have a safety deposit box at my bank. THEY AREN'T THAT MUCH!!!

Between 25 and 100 dollars a year, depending on size.

And, for digital storage that's long term. And by long term I mean outlasting the lifetime of a human:

https://www.amazon.com/M-DISC-4-7GB-Permanent-Archival-Backup/dp/B005Y4NKE0/184-1625399-3240447?ie=UTF8&*Version*=1&*entries*=0

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/M-DISC


M-DISC's design is intended to provide greater archival media longevity.[2] Millenniata claims that properly stored M-DISC DVD recordings will last 1000 years.[3] While the exact properties of M-DISC are a trade secret,[4] the patents protecting the M-DISC technology assert that the data layer is a "glassy carbon" and that the material is substantially inert to oxidation and has a melting point between 200° and 1000 °C.[5][6]

A stress test of the media was performed by the United States Department of Defense, proving that M-Disc DVDs are more durable than conventional DVDs. "The discs were subject to the following test conditions in the environmental chamber: 85°C, 85% relative humidity (conditions specified in ECMA-379) and full spectrum light".[7][8]

Conventional DVD-R and BD-R LTH (Low To High) use recording layers of organic dye and separate reflective layers.[9] Standard (HTL) BD-R and BD-R/DL (except LTH BD-R[10]) typically use inorganic data layers, but continue using a reflective layer. M-DISC BD-R has no reflective layer.[11] M-DISC uses a single inorganic recording layer, which is substantially inert to oxygen, but requires a higher-powered laser. M-DISC DVD does not require the reflective layer. Thus, both the M-DISC and inorganic BD-R physically alter the recording layer, burning a permanent hole in the material. Besides physical damage, failure of the reflective layer, followed closely by degradation of the data layer, are the primary failure modes of all optically recordable disks.

u/BloodyIron · 11 pointsr/DataHoarder

> LTO6

How exactly does that work when I see things like Price Example 1 and Price Example 2?

u/Luminous_Fantasy · 11 pointsr/Vaporwave

Blank casettes

Pretty sure I used to see these as a kid in the 2000's from my family. Also, they're prime.

because we're dealing with dinosaur technology, I only use amazon. Buncha shady looking websites out there, but to be hones they're probably just old.

And, here's the cassette labels

u/RandomCandor · 10 pointsr/philosophy

> Ways to store digital information that would last for centuries is practically impossible for regular people to get their hands on

https://www.amazon.com/dp/B011PIJPOC/

At about $1 for 10 Gigs of data, these are supposed to last several hundred years. A little pricey, sure, but far from impossible to acquire for regular people.

u/militantchicken · 10 pointsr/technology

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blu-ray_Disc_recordable

Go ahead buy one

Discs are right here

I remember seeing them on the shelves of Staples when I worked there 10 years ago.

u/arahman81 · 8 pointsr/Games

http://www.amazon.com/dp/B009KXE4VO/
50 Blu Rays for $27. And that's the retail price.

Blu-ray drives cost a bit, but blank discs don't cost that much. Definitely nowhere even close to what flash storage with the same capacity costs.

u/Korprat_Amerika · 7 pointsr/buildapc

Sorry to hear about your situation, Here is what I can add to the information available here.

A hard drive without power will hold its data for 5 to 7 years, not optimal.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/M-DISC theoretical data retention for 1000 years.

https://www.amazon.com/Archival-Verbatim-M-Disc-Inkjet-Printable/dp/B01B99WWXI/ref=asc_df_B01B99WWXI/?

They make a blu ray version too. https://www.amazon.com/Millenniata-Inc-M-DISC-Blu-ray-Media/dp/B00KGWV6MI

I have never used this, but it looks like a regular, non-organic based disc, just make sure your burner drive has support for it.

As others have said, pair a long lasting disc of your brand choice with a reliable (non youtube imho) cloud based storage. best of luck in your endeavor.

u/VarysLittleBird · 7 pointsr/Games

Didn't really affect piracy, though, if that was their motivation. You can get GameCube-size DVD-Rs for $0.50, they were used by digital cameras at the time. Just about any DVD burner could burn them and GameCubes with modchips could play them (this GameCube modchip was $25). It was no harder than regular DVDs. And the GameCube could still play regular DVD-Rs when modded if you took the top panel off with a screwdriver.

u/ThellraAK · 6 pointsr/answers

That's nothing on LTO-6
http://www.amazon.com/LTO-6-Ultrium-6-25TB-Cartridge-C7976A/dp/B00AHQUV3S/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1406264452&sr=8-1&keywords=lto-6

That's buying them one at a time, you could probably save a considerable sum by going through a vendor, and buying in bulk.

u/dragontamer5788 · 6 pointsr/hardware

> The tech is new but I equate this to CRT monitors vs LCD. LCD uses far less materials and yes, its more complicated at first but eventually the process becomes trivial.

CRT was an electron gun mounted between two electromagnets that had to be timed precisely to strike each pixel three times (at different voltages) so that the colors match up as expected. It was a grossly more expensive technology and grossly more complicated one.

LCD is a LED bulb behind a screen. When miniaturization technology caught up to make said screens feasible... then yes, LCDs are cheaper and lighter by design.

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Similarly, Hard Disks and Magnetic Storage do NOT require the same levels of miniaturization technology that a world-class chip fabrication lab requires. Hard Drives are simply cheaper to make and cheaper to design.

Hell, Tape Drives are still the cheapest, and have been for the better-half of a century at this point.

Solid State is incredibly complicated. I'm not sure if you are appreciating the complexity of a modern 14-nm fabrication lab, or the costs associated with running such a facility. Again, the yields between the two factories is proof enough. NAND Flash Chips, on the best factories available today, have approximately a 70% yield. Hard Drives constantly hit 97%+ yields.

This doesn't even account for the fact that no one has built a 5nm prototype facility yet (three nodes into the future), while HDD makers are already testing out HDMR designs. Moore's law is expected to end at 5nm, because that's the level when electrons start quantum teleporting through Silicon atoms uncontrolled.

The Magnetic Storage industry has begun to march forward again. Not only HDDs, but Tapes (with LTO10 expected to hit 48TB per tape at the same cost as today's tapes).

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SSDs are likely going to win on density, but yields are no longer improving and Moore's law seems to be dying. Future SSDs are going to cost a lot more... or have more cost-cutting measures like TLC.

u/Kichigai · 5 pointsr/TwinCities

Probably because it's expensive.

The cameras that are being trialed right now cost like $600 apiece. That gets you hardware that's unintrusive, but only has about five hours of battery life at SD, and three hours in HD; plus it only has enough storage for six hours of HD video (source). Bumping that up adds cost and bulk to an already expensive device. But let's say someone does this, and it's $700 (probably $800, but let's be conservative). That's a cool half million just for one camera per officer. Of course, you're going to need more than that; gotta have spares on hand in case one breaks, malfunctions, gets damaged, wears out, whatever. So we'll round that up to $600,000 for cameras (which is also conservative, IMHO).

Then you have to find a way to store and log all that footage. So now you need additional storage space for all the data where nothing of note happens. So 800 officers times, let's say five hours a day (one hour to arrive, get briefed and orders, and get ready, one hour to get back and check in, and one hour for paperwork) times five days a week. At roughly 6MbPS that's 54 Terabytes of data per week. Now, I don't know about you, but to me 54TB seems like kind of a lot. I work in a video production facility and not that long ago we purchased a 48TB SAN that set us back like $56,000 (note: we were getting a discount because we were trading in some old gear, but let's stick with this number). Let's say that unless otherwise needed this stuff only gets stored "online" for three months, and is stored "offline" for three years (minimally; likely it'd be longer). So we need ~650TB of online storage, and at ~$56k per 48TB, we would need 14 units costing almost $800,000. Offline storage would likely be LTO, we'll assume it's LTO-7, which stores 6.4TB of data per tape, so we'd need 1,210 over three years. Now, LTO-7 hasn't been released yet, so all prices from here on out are for LTO-6, just as an FYI. A single LTO-6 tape costs ~$40, so 1,210 of them would cost close to $50,000. The cheapest LTO-6 drive is bout $2,300 and moves 1.45TB per hour. Moving a month's worth of video (we're not even talking about the ancillary data that would need to be attached to this stuff to make any sense) would take over six days.

So $600,000 for cameras, $800,000 for online storage, $52,300 for offline storage, and we haven't even gotten into the infrastructure to support all this. You can probably chalk up another $100,000 worth of networking and cooling gear (this stuff gets hot).

And this isn't insignificant IT stuff. You're going to have to hire someone to handle all this ingest. And someone's going to have to go through all five hours of footage generated each day and log the stuff. So we have to expand the payroll so we don't end up with unmanageable backlogs. I don't even know where that'll come in, but over the course of three years it'll probably cost more than the equipment.

u/Robb4848 · 5 pointsr/DataHoarder

Ah ok, so something like this?
Millenniata Inc. M-DISC 25GB Blu-ray Media - 15 Disc Cake Box https://www.amazon.com/dp/B00KGWV6MI/ref=cm_sw_r_cp_api_i_yQmWCbMXCRK1J

Are there any that you would recommend?

u/fr3qu3nc7 · 5 pointsr/DataHoarder

Just recently went through this myself. Verbatim offers a few different lines of products. I'll leave the research up to you, but actual Verbatim produced media (i.e. the MID),
These are the way to go. Mine check out as VERBAT-IMe-000.
https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B00GSQ4DBM/ref=ask_ql_qh_dp_hza


Cheaper Verbatims are identified as CMCMAG-BA5-000. I haven't had any problems with these personally, either.
https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B008F5M2OY/ref=oh_aui_search_detailpage?ie=UTF8&psc=1


Of note, i've burned about 45 between the two different disks and only had 1 coaster so far, and it failed on ImgBurn's verification step.

u/user1492 · 4 pointsr/NoStupidQuestions

Do you have a VHS player?

u/Computations · 4 pointsr/hillaryclinton

> I'm not sure about that, but they apparently do use archival backup tapes, which is pretty amazing.

This is actually a bit of a pet peeve of mine. Tape decks are awesome, and are still used all the time. The big reason is that they are amazingly cheap. Here is a 6 TB tape for 30 dollars. If you never want to delete anything, tapes are awesome.

u/Weyoun2 · 4 pointsr/theydidthemath

Let's say you have a 2016 Subaru Outback which has 73.3 ft^3 of cargo space which the largest of the vehicles listed.

What kind of tapes are you talking about? Let's say you're spending big bucks and travelling with Sony's 185 TB tapes. I can't find anything about its dimensions, but let's for the sake of argument say it's similar to an LTO tape and is 4.5" x 4.3" x 1.1" = 21.285 in^3.

73.3 ft^3 = 126,663 in^3, but you're not going to get 100% packing efficiency due to the tape packaging as well as all those edges in the vehicle. Let's call it 80% packing efficiency to be on the very conservative side = 101,330 in^3.

101,330 in^3 / 21.285 in^3 = 4,760 tapes x 185 TB each = 880,600 TB.

Now let's say you're driving from your New York offices to Los Angeles offices. Google Maps says this is 2,789 miles and will take 40 hours.

But you're not going to drive straight through. You gotta eat, refuel, and sleep, and maybe even see a local tourist site. So let's double the time: 80 hours. So you're transferring 880,600 TB in 80 hours = 11,007.5 TB/hour. Google says this is 24,461,111 Mbps.

u/tani_P · 4 pointsr/cassetteculture

Super cool! Reminds me of those VHS adapters for camcorder tapes.

u/fireduck · 4 pointsr/DataHoarder

It is a type of optical media, there are DVD versions and bluray versions. Basically rather than a laser burning the organic dye stuff for a normal one, it is a slightly stronger laser burning a rock like material. It is supposed to last at least 1000 years.

You can get it off amazon:
https://www.amazon.com/LG-Electronics-Internal-Rewriter-WH14NS40/dp/B007VPGL5U

https://www.amazon.com/Verbatim-M-Disc-BD-R-Branded-Surface/dp/B011PZALWA

There have been some reports of things going strange with the multilayer, so I only trust the single layer (25GB) discs.

Edit: switched amazon link to write drive. linked to dvd only one at first.

u/silvernutter · 3 pointsr/Gamecube

As crammond94 commented, SD media launchers are not a perfect solution, even the best SD cards will still lag during demanding sequences. Sometimes it is hard to see the lag, but it is very apparent in choppy audio.

One thing you could do for minimal investment is to burn your own miniDVDs, use your SD media Launcher to load swiss, swap disks to the burned disk, and launch it via swiss without the need for a modchip. Burned miniDVDs generally work as well as the real thing. If you go this route, burn as slowly as possible, or you may get errors on the disk.

Other than that, the most convenient method would be to mod a Wii, install USBLoaderGX and Nintendont, and load gamecube games from an external hard drive. Wiis with broken disk drives are on ebay all the time for ~$15-$20.

u/sniperzoo · 3 pointsr/gadgets

Sony 6.25TB tape for $30.

We use $15 DAT 72 72GB tapes for database backups at my work.

u/Rich700000000000 · 3 pointsr/preppers

I had that same idea! My plan when I get some money is to get:


  1. A small laptop/netbook.

  2. A mini projector.

  3. A usb BluRay drive.

  4. And a bunch of BluRay disks.


    I burn all the movies, music, books, documentaries, archives, libraries, videos, tv shows, and games that I want, then put the projector, netbook and USB drive in a Faraday Cage. This gives me an unbeatable storage archive that is waterproof, drop-proof, EMP-proof, corruption-resistant, and very portable.
u/parawing742 · 3 pointsr/amazon

It is a pain-in-the-ass. Here's how it works: say you buy (or need to buy) a bunch of a certain product like CD-Rs. That spindle of 100 Verbatim discs costs $29.99 so you call your account manager and they "discount" the price to $19 because you're such a good customer.

...or you can just buy it even cheaper on Amazon for $17 without any hassle!

The company I work for uses Staples Advantage because it's "simplier." I have no idea why.

Source:
http://www.staples.com/Verbatim-CD-R-80MIN-700MB-52X-Branded-100pk-Spindle/product_479609
http://www.amazon.com/Verbatim-Minute-Branded-Recordable-Disc/dp/B003ZDNZSI/

u/RebootRevival · 3 pointsr/dreamcast

Taiyo Yuden. Are considered the best. There are a few different partners for TY but JVC is supposed to be the best version. But they are all speciality disc and not as easy to get as verbatim. For Standard consumer discs, verbatim are considered to be the best. Different media has different sweet spots on write speeds. Memorex CD-rs work just fine on the dreamcast on low burn speeds with a good burner. Just read up on how CD's are burned and it should help with figuring out read problems of back ups.

u/SoanaIRL · 3 pointsr/weddingplanning

They do make CDs that look like vinyl if you decide to go this route.

u/RSuave · 3 pointsr/Random_Acts_Of_Amazon

want:This Nintendo poster for my house

need: These pencil sharpeners for my classroom

wear: This crayon costume

read: This poster for my classroom for my classroom

watch: A gift card so I can go see whatever movie I want

listen to: Some blank cds so that I can burn some cds

The red one is the one I want. But the one with the familiar faces is cool too.

u/Malemocynt · 2 pointsr/vinyl

I have doubts the "grooves" in that CD contain music.

I actually have seen CDRs for sale in small quantities that have the label side stamped to look like a vinyl record, grooves and all.

u/efflixi · 2 pointsr/Infographics

This seems terribly inaccurate for some things. 6gbp for a GB of CD's? That's roughly $10 for less than 2 cd's...

http://www.amazon.com/Verbatim-Branded-Recordable-50-Disc-94691/dp/B00029U1DK/ref=sr_1_2?ie=UTF8&qid=1463441659&sr=8-2&keywords=cd%27s You can get 100 disks for less than twice the price listed on there.

u/cyrusjumpjet · 2 pointsr/mfdoom

Yes, almost any CD/cassette stereo should allow you to record a CD onto a blank cassette. Get a blank package of audio cassettes like these and then a CD/cassette stereo, perhaps something like this. Basically, all you do is play the CD and hit the Record button on the tape deck at the same time and whatever plays through the stereo will be recorded onto the cassette.

u/r2deetard · 2 pointsr/dreamcast

I had some burning issues at first. I ended up using a better quality disk and haven't had a dud since. These are the best you can get. I bought Taiyo Yuden disks and have had excellent results. Get them now, because they have been discontinued.

u/chemistry_teacher · 2 pointsr/pics

Selling for $16.45 on Amazon.

u/urbanplowboy · 2 pointsr/editors

For a hard backup option, you could consider archiving completed projects to a large capacity M-DISC blu-ray. 100GB for ~$25, currently. The M-DISCs are supposed to last at least 100 years (marketed as 1000 years).

But then you'd need a blu-ray drive for your laptop...

u/Abraham_Sapien · 2 pointsr/BlackPeopleTwitter
u/DarkbaneCrypto · 2 pointsr/DataHoarder

well I haven't seen anyone mention the obvious for you, a disc writer...

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a thousand year disc...

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https://www.amazon.com/Archival-Verbatim-M-Disc-Inkjet-Printable/dp/B01B99WWXI

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a hundred year disc...

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https://www.amazon.com/Verbatim-M-Disc-BD-R-Branded-Surface/dp/B011PZALWA

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either way you can get one drive to use all the various medium and change your mind as you want and decide to put some things on more expensive discs and less expensive discs based on what you feel like...

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https://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16827129090

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or

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https://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?item=N82E16827136307

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based on the numbers you cited disc might be the best choice, if you do a lot more annually, then perhaps tape will make more sense...

u/AshleyUncia · 2 pointsr/DataHoarder

Oh, well, if it helps, I've had NO problem finding this 10 disc SKU from Verbatium. https://www.amazon.com/Verbatim-Bluray-Triple-Blu-ray-Printable/dp/B01DGG5ZP4/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1539998864&sr=8-1&keywords=100+GB+BD

But this is the largest SKU I've found that wasn't M-Discs. There's also a Verbatium 25pc M-Disc SKU but M-Discs are priiiiiicey.

u/iamDanger_us · 2 pointsr/videography

Assuming you have a VCR capable of playing VHS tapes, and the capture device /u/cikmatt mentioned in his comment above, you can use a VHS-C to VHS adapter. https://www.amazon.com/VHS-C-Video-Cassette-Adaptor-COMPATIBLE/dp/B000P1KSHO

u/Griz-Lee · 2 pointsr/synology

People that have huge datasets usually do that, set it up at a friends house or parents another one and backup to that, cheaper this way in the long run.
Let's talk about business. If you don't have the money to store that amount of data properly that means it's a shitty business model.

You are storing video/photo projects for your clients. OK, do they pay for that? If no -> shitty business model.

If the data is on your NAS, and on the cloud, this is considered "hot-storage" which is rather expensive.
There I am asking myself, why don't you just put it on M-Disc and archive it when the project is over? https://www.amazon.com/Verbatim-M-Disc-BD-R-Branded-Surface/dp/B011PZALWA/ref=sr_1_2?ie=UTF8&qid=1500612293&sr=8-2&keywords=m-disk+25GB get some of those, drop the files on it and archive it, needs no power, no HDD replacement, no monthly fee in cloud storage, nothing.

u/Jedecon · 2 pointsr/DataHoarder

A few months late, but in my defense I just found this thread.


I found several. In like two seconds. In fact, when I searched for BD-R" on Amazon, EVERY result I checked, except for one that was labeled LTH was HTL. Note that I am relying on the customer questions & answers to get the ID. It is technically possible that the manufacturers have started selling different discs under the same listings, so if you are worried you can check the ID on the discs before using them.


I think that your confusion comes from the fact that the name of the manufacturer is rarely the brand name.


For example, these Quantum Optical discs have a media ID of cmcmag-ba5. If you look for that ID in the list you will see that they were made by CMC Magnetics Corporation and are an HTL disc.


https://www.amazon.com/Optical-Quantum-OQBDR06LT-50-Blu-Ray-Recordable/dp/B009KXE4VO


These made by ValueDisc have that same media ID, cmcmag-ba5, so we can tell that they are the same disc sold under a different brand.


https://www.amazon.com/Value-Disc-Blu-Ray-Spindle-Taiwan/dp/B00DUHUPCS


These from PLEXDisc have the ID "OTCBDR-002" so they are made by Amethystum Storage Technology Co., Ltd. and are HTL.


https://www.amazon.com/PlexDisc-633-214-Blu-ray-Printable-Recordable/dp/B00IK2OQM8


Those are all cheapo discs. If you want to see some name brand, these Verbatim discs have the media ID VERBAT-IMe. According to that licensee list they are made by Mitsubishi Chemical Media Co., Ltd. and are HTL.


https://www.amazon.com/Verbatim-BD-R-Blu-ray-Recordable-Media/dp/B00GSQ4DBM



A quick side note, if you look at the licencee list, you will see that there are several manufacturers that have never made an LTH disc. If, for example, you buy a Sony disc, you can be sure that it is HTL.

u/feedayeen · 2 pointsr/todayilearned

1GB/hour to store high resolution sound and audio. You can buy a 1TB (1000GB) HDD for less than a hundred. This is enough to store a month worth of video for a single officer. Net cost, 3 dollars a day.

A single DVDR can fit an entire day of work, those cost 25 cents at consumer prices.

Blank Blue-ray disks are even cheaper. 2 of these could record a cop for an entire year

u/sbeloud · 2 pointsr/news

Totally correct, except for artist like The Black Keys that are very strict analog only guys.

But I was referring to finding this https://www.amazon.com/Verbatim-Digital-Multicolor-Spindle-94488/dp/B00009WO51

u/invenio78 · 2 pointsr/software

You should look into tape backup as the storage is very cheap (although the drives tend to be expensive). I presume you don't need access to the data often as you say "archiving".

https://www.amazon.com/Sony-Linear-0-85-Inch-Internal-LTX2500G/dp/B00ARHKUZG/ref=sr_1_4?ie=UTF8&qid=1526860960&sr=8-4&keywords=tape+backup

u/Datkif · 2 pointsr/videos

10 for $13.95 on Amazon

Eddit: add words

u/bscottprice · 1 pointr/Gamecube

I have it in all 7 of my GCs. I prefer the Japanese models as they had color matching GB Players. The discs arent too bad. I used these:

Philips Duplicator Grade DVD-R 8cm 4X Silver Shiny Mini 50PK Spindle https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0056BYHAM/ref=cm_sw_r_cp_apa_uFQEyb92HYFW6

They always work for me.

u/Expat123456 · 1 pointr/KidsAreFuckingStupid

Even solid state stuff, can just fail randomly. And are not inherently shelf stable.

I would say a DVD/bluray like this more stable for storage. They claim 10,000 years (I really doubt that got tested haha)


I wonder which is better against a catastrophic sun flare though?


Nothing is as good as cloud storage. But nobody has access to your profile, and it will be deleted after your death with nobody to pay for it.

u/Splongus · 1 pointr/buildapc

"M-Disc" Blu-Ray read-only discs are the way to go for long term safe storage. These seem like a good bet: https://www.amazon.com/dp/B011PZALWA/?coliid=I26HCTM3YQMBYF&colid=GS49I9UL0XS8

Keep them in a moderately cool place and away from sunlight.

I guess if you want to make sure they can be read in the future, you could keep a Blu-Ray player with them in case those aren't easy to find in the future. Keep in mind that BD-R will work in a Blu-Ray player, but BDXL requires a special player. BD-R DL will work in a standard player and are able to record data on both sides of the disc, and so will come in larger capacities.

u/321321321yawaworht · 1 pointr/Piracy

I think you're looking at the wrong thing, they seem dirt cheap according to this link https://www.amazon.com/Sony-Linear-0-85-Inch-Internal-LTX2500G/dp/B00ARHKUZG

u/Ic3lander · 1 pointr/systemshock

It would be expensive to implement unless they could get a lot of sd to 3.5 floppy adapters from source in bulk. They would have to make it a tier add on. Realistically, the money from funding could be put to the game. If they try an implement too many expensive add ons it will detract from the game. Its a neat idea though. Your better off to do it your self. Just request that NDS make an image of system shock available as an optional download with your tier package, or make an image your self from the gog download when it becomes available. Write it to the sd card (make sure its bootable) and stick it in the adapter. They could also make System Shock labels available to put on the adapter. https://www.amazon.com/Sony-Floppy-Interface-Memory-MSAC-FD2MA/dp/B00005T3Q1 that's the cheapest one I could find with a limited search. I have maybe two cases of 3.5 inch floppies, unopened, stored away. I have no use for them. People just threw them away from an office storage and I took them for nostalgia reasons. That and they are getting increasingly rare.....especially unopened cases. :D Thats another option if they make 3.5 inch floppy labels a tier option, is just put them on an old 3.5 inch floppy. I am sure that would be a much economical option and would meet the nostalgia criteria. You could then frame it. https://www.amazon.com/Verbatim-1-44MB-Pre-Fmt-Discontinued-Manufacturer/dp/B0000511BI/ref=sr_1_6?s=electronics&ie=UTF8&qid=1468095918&sr=1-6&keywords=3.5+inch+floppies.

u/hillna · 1 pointr/worldnews

> No? Magnetic tape is not that great at keeping data. Maybe magnetic disks but definitely not tape. tape gets warped in a ton of different ways waaaay too easily. Not to mention has a super low storage capacity

I used to manage tape backup systems for a medical research university, as well as other formats. If stored properly, tapes are your best bet. As far as capacity? It's the cheapest and densest. Here is 6.5TB for $30. It's just slow.

u/bmatt17 · 1 pointr/pcmasterrace

Where in the hell do you live that wants $50 for 20 blank cd's?

They're $12 for 50 on Amazon.

u/RchGrav · 1 pointr/Bitcoin

Did you watch the video demonstrating the M-Disk media durability?. http://youtu.be/CfBEHlzvZnc Sure, a DVD is excessive to store a small wallet.dat file, but its pretty inexpensive when you consider its a total cost of $60, $30 burner http://www.amazon.com/LG-Electronics-Portable-External-GP60NB50/dp/B00C2AMK2M/ plus $30 for 10 blank m-discs http://www.amazon.com/M-DISC-4-7GB-Permanent-Archival-Backup/dp/B005Y4NKE0/ If your ultimate goal would be for a family member who gets this DVD from safety deposit box to be able to retrieve the bitcoins, encrypt the wallet.dat w/ the built in pass phrase encryption found in the core bitcoin wallet, and possibly fill the rest of the DVD with a few thousand family photos to use up the rest of the space. You could have the pass phrase stored separately in a completely different document w/ a trusted 3rd party, or the family lawyer. Maybe you could hide the pass phrase deep within the family photos in a picture. It all depends how difficult you want the process to be to retrieve the coins, and how many secrets need to be combined to access them. Be creative, write clear instructions on how to access the bitcoins on the DVD with the wallet.dat, include bitcoin software, but don't be so clear about the password, or even that there is a password in the instructions with the wallet.dat file.. Have that be separated somehow if that is a concern.. but don't be so tricky that no one in the family is ever able to get the coins either.

u/2souless · 1 pointr/Random_Acts_Of_Amazon

Hey! Happy early birthday! I'm feelin' great today too; it must be in the air! Anyway, I dunno if you have prime or not, but I'd love [these blank CD's] (http://www.amazon.com/dp/B00009WO51/ref=wl_it_dp_o_pC_nS_ttl?_encoding=UTF8&colid=1TXT7ADV3OFZM&coliid=I1Q2XBFN4UGA4L) so I can burn some new ones before school starts back up! I love that the look like 7-inches but are actually CD's, but part of me feels like I'm cheating. :o

If you don't have prime, which I totally get, I'd love [this captive bead ring] (http://www.amazon.com/dp/B00GRY46N0/ref=wl_it_dp_o_pC_nS_ttl?_encoding=UTF8&colid=1TXT7ADV3OFZM&coliid=I5O2I87OHZQFI&psc=1) although I can't decide if it would look better in my septum or my cartilage, which I guess depends on how big the rose turns out to be.

How was warped!? My friend works booths there usually for our blood bank- I think she was there! Crazily enough her name is Chloe. :o

What are your birthday plans? How old will you be?

u/Mindbender444 · 1 pointr/SegaSaturn

[JVC Taiyo Yuden Silver Lacquer 52X CD-R Media 100 Pack in Plastic Wrap] (https://www.amazon.com/dp/B007R6B6FI/ref=cm_sw_r_cp_apip_76sZPZwmYy1lC)

u/ILL_PM_WHAT_YOU_ASK · 1 pointr/news

> But he was only selling the CDs for basically cost at .25$ a piece- so it clearly wasn't a money grab.


Do the math, man, he made 28000 copies. (For instance) if he buys 280 packs of 100 of these blank disks, it would cost him (more or less) 4760 US$, selling each disk at .25c would make 7000 US$, it's 2240 US$ in profit. Sure that's nothing for a guy like him, but it's a lot considering he was using freely available and copyrighted software and a copyrighted logo to make the costumer believe it was a legit Microsoft product. And dude, it was 28000 copies!, that's a large counterfeit operation, not 10 or 20 spare backups like most IT guys do.

u/StrangeMan · 1 pointr/AskReddit

Would something like this do?

u/Zmey-13 · 1 pointr/DataHoarder

I was refering to QL's https://www.amazon.com/Verbatim-98913-M-Disc-100GB-Surface/dp/B011PIJPOC

But even with 25GB variants a 10TB equivalent is 400 BD-R($400) where as you can buy https://www.amazon.com/Red-Pro-10TB-Hard-Drive/dp/B072F422FW/ref=sr_1_5?crid=ZCZA7X2L70SB&keywords=wd%2B10tb&qid=1569463708&s=electronics&sprefix=wd%2B10%2Celectronics%2C356&sr=1-5&th=1 at $325, and shuckubles are about twice as cheap on sale.

Add the fact that you have to keep track of 400 BD-R after spending an obscene amount of time burning them.

As far as last longer, I would probably find some tape drive solution for long term storage or just get carbonite ($6/mo) or g drive($12/mo) because $400 could buy you 3-6 years.

u/InadequateUsername · 1 pointr/DataHoarder

I was considering either these Datalife Plus discs by verbatim or these regular branded verbatim's not sure if there is much difference between the two.

u/kkjdroid · 1 pointr/pcmasterrace

http://smile.amazon.com/Verbatim-Blu-ray-Recordable-25-Disc-97457/dp/B00471HK0Q/

625GB of storage for $24.

http://smile.amazon.com/Western-Digital-Caviar-Cache-Desktop/dp/B00461G3MS

Cheapest 500GB HDD I could find: $42

The Blu-Rays are about 1/3 as fast (27MB/s vs. 75), but they're easier to distribute if you need to send video around without an Internet connection in excess of 200Mbps.

u/mmmeadi · 1 pointr/vinyl

I don't know anything about labels so I won't even go there. But just taking a quick scan on amazon, Vessels by Twenty-one Pilots, Froot by Marina and the Diamonds, and Nevermind by Nirvana are all cheaper on CD than cassette.

Further, if we're talking about the DIY scene, a box of ten type II cassettes costs 27.95 USD, a box of ten type I cassettes costs 20.50 USD, while a 100 pack of CD-Rs costs 16.47 USD. So as far as I can tell, buying and selling music on cassette is significantly more expensive than CDs.

Edit: Formatting.

u/inverted_inverter · 1 pointr/todayilearned


You can get even cheaper tapes, $42 for 6.25TB / $17 for 3TB

http://www.amazon.com/HP-Ultrium-6-25TB-Cartridge-C7976A/dp/B00AHQUV3S/ref=pd_cp_e_1/178-4500297-9969555

And it's not even horribly slow, up to 160MB/s transfer rate, the only problem is the drives that read the tapes are prohibitively expensive for home use.

u/UnicodeConfusion · 1 pointr/DataHoarder

I just paid 58 bucks for 10 100GB blu-ray discs. That's pretty cheap. I've been looking for a tape solution for a long time but haven't found anything affordable. link: https://www.amazon.com/Verbatim-Bluray-Triple-Blu-ray-Printable/dp/B01DGG5ZP4/ref=sr_1_1?s=electronics&ie=UTF8&qid=1536451155&sr=1-1&keywords=100gb+blu-ray+discs+blank&dpID=51TFGIkOuGL&preST=_SX300_QL70_&dpSrc=srch.

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I would really like a disc printer too but those seem to have disappeared from the market.

u/sambqt · 1 pointr/technology

She could try one of these. And buy her a stack of these and maybe a bunch of these, too. Tell her they take up a lot less room than the tapes and she can still label the cases. Maybe you can eventually get her to just connect a hard drive to her dvr and tell her it's still essentially a like physical copy, just on a more compact unit. If not, hopefully she's still happy with the dvd recorder.

u/traal · 1 pointr/DataHoarder

Those are LTH discs, not great for archiving. You want HTL discs like these ($41.80/50-disc spindle): https://www.amazon.com/Verbatim-DataLifePlus-White-Inkjet-Printable/dp/B004477BQQ/

Edit: I was wrong, they're HTL discs which should be good for archiving.

Or these Verbatim branded M-Discs ($66.75/25-disc spindle): https://www.amazon.com/Verbatim-M-Disc-BD-R-Branded-Surface/dp/B011PZALWA/

Or the ones you linked earlier, Milleniata branded M-Discs ($64.13/15-disc spindle): https://www.amazon.com/dp/B00KGWV6MI/

The above three products may or may not all use the same chemistry and manufacturing process. Nobody really knows.

u/rpare89 · 1 pointr/audiophile

I think youre being a little harsh on people who are only trying to help you out. Congrats on your thrift store vintage blank media purchase. (theres something I never thought Id say.) If you're looking to back up a music collection to hard copy for playback on CD players then you're probably going to need a pretty big stack of discs (depending on your music collection, it can get pretty expensive), its an older format and has very limited data capacity 700mb or 70 minutes of music I believe. Because the music is being stored digitally as opposed to analog there is really no difference between discs. Now you spent $10 on 20 discs where on amazon you could have spent $20 on 100 CD-R discs, so it turns out per disc to be much cheaper and you can store up to 6.8 gigs of data or 116 hours of music. AMAZON 100 CD-R $20 BTW another good thing about newer CD-Rs and DVD-Rs is MUCH MUCH faster writing speeds. CDRs now can manage up to 52x and DVDR can do about 16x, where as your thrift shop CDRs can probably only manage 4x

Now if you just want to back up music to hardcopy for archival purposes (to be copied back to a computer at a later date, in case of hard drive failure) then DVD-R is definitely the way to go. 100 DVD-R $22 now you can store 470 gigs of data, which is probably more than enough to back up your entire music library Im sure at only a smaller increase in price that is still cheaper (per disc) than your vintage CD-Rs. If you're an audiophile with an extensive Lossless collection (fortunately for dead heads like me this is a rather easy thing to come by) then DVD-R will allow you to back up your music in fewer discs which would be much easier to handle.

I hope thats a detailed enough answer to help you make an informed decision on how to back up your media, and in the future please dont bite the heads off of people who are really only trying to help you out.

u/Capt_DMFiat · 1 pointr/writing

Well, he only wants to put a book on it, so storage size isn't a concern as books are small. CD-Roms are cheap so you can buy literally 100 CD-Roms for $16.47.

u/Lee_Ars · 1 pointr/DataHoarder

So very, very sorry for your loss. Losing my wife would be my ultimate nightmare and it's got to be so incredibly difficult. Wish I could give you a hug, man.

Whatever method you choose, make sure it's got an offsite component to it—in other words, make sure the data are backed up somewhere that's not your home. That way it's protected in the event of burglary, fire, flood, or anything else that potentially damages or destroys your home.

If it's just ~1500MB of data (or about 1.5GB), then I'd recommend something simple like Dropbox, where you can simply copy the files to a local folder on your computer and it's mirrored up into Dropbox's storage cloud. Alternately, Backblaze might be a little more bulletproof (would be less easy to accidentally delete a file locally and have it deleted out of your backup), and would cost you about $50 a year.

Also, old ways work well. Consider putting the data on archival quality optical media and putting that media in a safety deposit box. Just make sure you pick media that are rated for long-duration archive; cheap CD-Rs or DVD-Rs can "rot" as the phase-change material deteriorates.

I hope you're taking care of yourself. Wishing you and your daughter the best of luck and hoping life is kind to you.

u/mohaukachi · 1 pointr/Music

$15 dollars vs 7x90 min casette tape for $6.99

u/nondescriptzombie · 1 pointr/techsupport

Properly stored archival quality DVD's should be good for over 100 years.

https://smile.amazon.com/Verbatim-UltraLife-Archival-5-Disc-96320/dp/B000WTO352

You will never need to worry about a virus hitting your backup, either.

Edit: So I guess there's a blu-ray equivalent that is even better. https://smile.amazon.com/Verbatim-M-Disc-BD-R-Branded-Surface/dp/B011PZALWA/ but your blu-ray burner needs to be rated for M-DISC.

u/circuit_icon · 1 pointr/TurboGrafx

I read that elsewhere as well. But would it fix the issue I'm having?


These guys, right?


I'd rather get a 10 pack, but looks like they only sell the 100 pack.

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https://www.amazon.com/CMC-Pro-Powered-Technology-100-Pack/dp/B01HFBO78W/

u/DustbinK · 1 pointr/EmoScreamo

> You had to buy a cd player/stereo/laptop/etc at one point, did you not? I'm not understanding the argument of cost.

Yeah, but my point being is that you likely still have a capable device around. Tape decks? Quite a bit older and less people still have this equipment. Tape decks also lack the multiple use scenario of a CD/DVD drive. Software, data, games, movies, and music all come on discs so the things that play these discs are much more ubiquitous.

>CDs can be found for around $0.30 each

http://www.amazon.com/Verbatim-94691-Branded-Recordable-50-Disc/dp/B00029U1DK/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1375136983&sr=8-1&keywords=blank+cd

$0.20 a CD. So half the cost compared to your number and it only goes cheaper the more bulk you go for.

Let's spend $10 on tapes now to make this purely an Amazon comparison. http://www.amazon.com/Maxell-UR-60-Blank-Audio-Cassette/dp/B000087NBV/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1375137258&sr=8-1&keywords=blank+tape

Well, can't do that, so let's get two of these and spend $12.

$0.75/tape.

You keep bringing up how much they're sold for and that's besides the point. They're selling them for cheaper than CDs because of the market they're selling them to. According to the numbers here it's actually giving the labels a much smaller profit margin.

Tape doesn't have the large album art of vinyl nor the sound quality of vinyl or CDs. They have what, portability? That is why 8 tracks lost according to some. But I'm sure no one is still using that portable tape deck.

u/Shentok · 1 pointr/SegaSaturn

Either a bad dump or bad blank discs. I saw you mentioned Verbatim which are generally low quality discs and will have trouble streaming audio and data to your Saturn.

https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B007R6B6FI/

These are the only discs I've come across that work on both the Saturn and Sega CD with zero issues. There is another that looks similar by CMC that has issues. Be sure it's JVC Taiyo Yuden.

u/R2Dork · 1 pointr/SegaCD

I use these Taiyo Yuden CDRs from Amazon: https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B01HFBO78W Burning with LiquidCD https://www.macupdate.com/app/mac/19994/liquidcd on my old iMac's slowest speed (8x i think). No issues so far.

u/SirCrest_YT · 1 pointr/DataHoarder

I got these a while ago. They're great: https://smile.amazon.com/gp/product/B00471HK0Q/ref=oh_aui_search_detailpage?ie=UTF8&psc=1

Verbatim makes some great BD's. Their HardCoat surface is seriously really durable. Even took a key to it and it looked untouched.

Just be sure they have the Hard Coat and are HTL which have inorganic dyes.

u/powercorruption · 0 pointsr/wiiu

It's not misinformation, dummy. Go pick up a few blu-rays, some PS3 or PS4 games, and some BD-Rs, and you'll notice many of them have rounded edges. This is not unique to Wii U discs, THAT'S misinformed to think that.