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Re:Booting a PC from a Vinyl Record by bayindirh on Friday January 23, 2026 @02:32PM (#46736743)
M-DISC [0] will probably cover most of the scenarios. It's still expensive, though.

[0]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/M-DISC

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Re:Booting a PC from a Vinyl Record by hedgehog on Friday January 23, 2026 @06:46PM (#46739528)
I'd heard of those but never looked them up, always thought they'd be super expensive. It's about $40 for a drive that can write them and $13 each for 100GB media. That's pretty reasonable for durable storage.
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Re:Booting a PC from a Vinyl Record by bayindirh on Saturday January 24, 2026 @06:24AM (#46742683)
Yeah, normally it's not expensive, but since market for these discs are so small here, the prices are at exorbitant levels for M-DVDs. M-BDRs were unavailable, but they are available for reasonable prices, as I just checked.

I have drives which can burn M-DVDs, but I'd need an M-BDR drive. The ones I have doesn't support M-DISCs.

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