Music is Back on Optical Disk in This Plex Server
Price wise, well, it’s going to vary depending where you are in the world and exactly when you look. But Blu-ray pricing is looking competitive to hard drives again, and that even goes for the long-lasting, archival-quality “M-disks” that are supposed to last 1000 years in ideal conditions. Of course if you’re playing with LLM Agents, having your precious data on a Write Once Read Many medium like Blu-ray also has the advantage of keeping the agent from wiping it out, which [WNY] takes pains to point out.
- ▪Price wise, well, it’s going to vary depending where you are in the world and exactly when you look.
- ▪But Blu-ray pricing is looking competitive to hard drives again, and that even goes for the long-lasting, archival-quality “M-disks” that are supposed to last 1000 years in ideal conditions.
- ▪Of course if you’re playing with LLM Agents, having your precious data on a Write Once Read Many medium like Blu-ray also has the advantage of keeping the agent from wiping it out, which [WNY] takes pains to point out.
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Music Is Back On Optical Disk In This Plex Server No comments by: Tyler August August 7, 2026 Title: Copy Short Link: Copy Given that the no doubt totally sustainable build-out of data centers has sent both solid state and magnetic hard drive prices soaring, though, [WNY Over The Air] decided to take a look back at optical disks — specifically the high-density BDXL disks — and see how they do hosting the music library for his Plex server, among other things. Price wise, well, it’s going to vary depending where you are in the world and exactly when you look. But Blu-ray pricing is looking competitive to hard drives again, and that even goes for the long-lasting, archival-quality “M-disks” that are supposed to last 1000 years in ideal conditions.
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