> Not just brand. Rip the same disc 10x and you'll find bit-level differences on those > 10 rips. Optical read reliability for archival purposes is a terrible scenario for > us, and honestly may never get much better as the drives just keep getting cheaper.
Yeah, even Plextor's given up on fighting the race-to-the-bottom with ever-cheaper hardware. And Apple, who are otherwise quite good at avoiding that scenario, have already abandoned optical media.
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