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Murray's Blog
Personal blog · blog.ligos.netsystemshardware
Murray's Blog is a personal blog at blog.ligos.net about systems and hardware. Since 2018, 4 different Hacker News readers have linked it 4 times, most often “The Reliability of Optical Disks”. It is still writing: the last post was on 2026-09-26, and you can follow it by feed.
Too few sampled comments (2) to say how often HN recommends it.?
Why HN links it
HN readers link this blog for its testing of optical disc longevity, covering CD-R, DVD-R and Blu-ray media and whether they survive heat, cold and age. One commenter calls it a good source on the subject.
Summarised by Claude from a sample of 2 HN comments that link here. Each comment is marked recommending, critical or neutral (citing without judging); how this works.
Most-linked posts?
- The Reliability of Optical Disks3 people · 3 mentions · first linked 2022-04-02
What Hacker News says?
It's a bit more nuanced than that. Standard CD-R and DVD-R uses organic dyes for the recording layer, which are sensitive to light and humidity. M-DISC DVD-R used some proprietary inorganic layer, which was more durable in theory and in independent lab tests[1]. When BD-R was introduced, all discs used the same inorganic recording layer, including M-DISC BD-R. That, plus the lack of independent tests, plus the fact…
Comment linking /2022-04-02/The-Reliability-Of-Optical-Disks.html
on “Longevity of Recordable CDs, DVDs and Blu-Rays (2020)”Submitted The Reliability of Optical Disks as a story · 142 points
HN discussionLong term storage with blu-ray optical media is the way. Check out this guys testing: https://blog.ligos.net/2022-04-02/The-Reliability-Of-Optical... Hot, cold, time - no problem. Just keep them out of sunlight.
Comment linking /2022-04-02/The-Reliability-Of-Optical-Disks.html
on “Louis Rossmann: We've started a foundation to bring back ownership [video]”Submitted Use a Mikrotik as Your Home Router (2017) as a story · 25 points
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