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You should be glad you didn't. As someone nearing the end of a 2-month journey ripping thousands of blurays, it's sad to see how many simply no longer work. The

You should be glad you didn't. As someone nearing the end of a 2-month journey ripping thousands of blurays, it's sad to see how many simply no longer work. The material degrades and they become unrippable (or DRM prevents it? Or the reader doesn't work?). As you found, it's user-hostile territory and I suggest you avoid it. In my case, these were all legally collected so each one that doesn't work stings because that's about $40 that's gone forever. I'd say maybe 10% haven't worked. Some have visibly blackened which I didn't realize was possible. Plus if you have 1tb of data to back up, you need 26 disks at the minimum!

IYasha 2y ago
Wow! What a titanic task you've managed there! It's a pity that not even factory-stamped discs are safe from corrosion. I hope you share your stuff via torrents too. Heh, while I wasn't a movie BD enthusiast, I'm well into data backup solutions for home. Even considered buying an LTO drive once. But backing up to 100GB discs is pretty much doable, valid solution. Except for clustering (dividing files/dirs between discs) and updates (which are only possible on BD-REs, but very time-consuming). I also discovered DVD-RAMs recently, and not only are they darn beautiful, but very versatile and claimed to be more reliable than usual DVDs (nothing beats M-DVDs though). Good for storing project sources.