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~inquiry

Oh, wow... "blu-ray" haven't heard/seen that term in a while!

I never got past DVD's as storage medium. I'm pretty sure I still have a CD/DVD burner (is that what they were/are called?). Can't remember that last time I used it.

Am I remembering correctly that writing/burning one is a one-time even, i.e. you can't add more later? Was a file system created thereupon at the same time?

Wow... I'm pretty sure I knew such things once upon a time.. and now... *SCRAPHEAP*.... :-)

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~shoebx wrote (thread):

I'm pretty sure I still have a CD/DVD burner (is that what they were/are called?)

It looks like the most "correct" term would be recorder, but everybody just calls them burners so, yes, that's what they're called :)

Am I remembering correctly that writing/burning one is a one-time even, i.e. you can't add more later? Was a file system created thereupon at the same time?

For my usecase, yes, but multi-session disks (basically, "half-written" disks with some very simple journaling thrown in) were definitely a thing for CDs. I haven't properly investigated whether an equivalent exists for BD-Rs but it looks like it from a quick search.

Also, there are BD-REs, (Recordable Erasable) which are just like CD-RWs (ReWritable), but apparently they're less durable in the long term (and personally a bit scary to handle, imagine overwriting one by accident, the "Write Once Read Many" aspect is a feature IMO).

From what I can tell, Blu-Rays are a quite niche market (the burner costed a bit and I had to order the disks from a weird specialized local seller to get a good price), but they're definitely not dead (I just bought a USB-C burner!). It also looks like the whole market is archival-oriented so I think that's a good sign :D