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Off-topic question: has anyone used M-Disk BD disks to make long-term backups? I got recently interested in it after reading that US Navy tested it in Arizona a
by smarx007 6y ago
Off-topic question: has anyone used M-Disk BD disks to make long-term backups? I got recently interested in it after reading that US Navy tested it in Arizona and found it to be the only medium without read errors after the tests. But that was apparently more than 5 years ago and I stopped hearing about disk drives around then. Is it an unreasonable idea to buy a USB writer drive and give it a go?
- dmitrygr 6y agoI use them. Burn each copy twice. Par2 files on separate disks. So far no read errors (verified yearly)
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- Wowfunhappy 6y agoI really want to. I just wish that the BDXL discs were, like, half as expensive as they are. It's not M-Discs fault of course, I just have too much data...
- namibj 6y agoWell, even normal BD is very resilient, apart from delamination. But that's a gradual problem you can preempt with multiple parity discs for each bundle of data discs, along with periodic checking of the discs (delamination is optically quite obvious).
- jti107 6y agoyes! i've used Verbatim BDXL M-Disc 100 GB discs for backup. i just store the data in a Vercacrypt container for security. there are some low quality drives and discs out there so you need to do your research but I've been using it for couple of months and they've worked great. you can get 5 discs for $60 on amazon.