Debian BDXL distribution

I think it is high time to also be able to download a BDXL Debian image.

Since Debian 8, a DL BD is not enough to fit the complete distribution for one architecture.

 

The full Debian 8.9.0 for x64 is 81 CDs, 13 DVDs, 3 BDs, or 2 DLBDs.

There's no full CD distribution for Debian 9

 

Debian 7 is also distributed as 1 DLBD, so there should be the choice of 1 TLBD for 8 and 9.

 

A 100GB BDXL disc costs 7 euro.

 

That the Debian distribution network provides DLBD builds but not TLBD builds.

 

Debian was also late to provide DVD, BD, and DLBD builds. And never provided DLDVD builds.

 

If penta layer BDXL is developed, it should be "160GB", so that it can back up such common drives.

Hexa layer seems kind of ready at 200GB.

A 320GB deca layer BDXL was also developed, so it would fit with that line of reasoning.

 

The 6 and 10 layer prototypes or almost products were developed a long time ago but not brought to market yet.

What came to the production/enterprise markets are the cartridges with 150GB per side optical discs.

The only quad layer 128GB discs I've seen come in a cartridge.

100GB M-DISC only came out in 2016 (so my drive theoretically only supports single layer).

It seems optical costs 50% as much as other solutions for cold/nearline enterprise storage.

The price of BDXL discs only came way down near the current level around 2016.

 

Single layer BD-Rs and CD-Rs of the same brand work at the highest speed.

Single layer BD-REs of another off brand also work at their highest speed.

 

Well, I checked the manufacturers:

Worked:
CD-R (brand1): "Plasmon Data Systems"
BD-R (brand1): Moser Baer
BD-R DL (Verbatim): "Verbatim" (Taiwan)
BD-RE (brand2): Ritek

Failed:
BD-R DL (brand1): CMC Magnetics (Taiyo Yuden optical disc successor!!)

Is my drive bad?

Now, one thing is to burn without errors, another not to rot quickly.

It seems other people have some problems with this drive and there are no firmware updates.

From the moment I opened the box I did not like it because of the cheap plastic.

Never again this product line.

Wait, I bought the CMC discs before they started producing some TY tech products, so maybe the drive is not really bad.

 

But a bad thing about my drive is that it is not possible to measure disc quality.

I should make a couple of clarifications, to avoid confusion:

- Plasmon Data Systems is an equipment brand. Many different manufacturers with varying processes use this code.

- Verbatim quite often outsources disc manufacturing to different producers with no issues.

I just burned a Verbatim DVD+R successfully again. Manufacture for my version seems to have been outsourced to CMC Magnetics in Taiwan.

I also have some TDK DVD+R which worked well which are just Moser Baer. There are some Philips with the same code. I burned one a couple years ago and I got zero errors now in a media scan.

Many years ago I bought some Philips DVDs and I think they all failed to burn.