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Verbatim MDISC BDXL - 100 GB, 4 times the burn speed with lifelong archiving, 5 pieces in a jewel case £25.44 @ Amazon Germany
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Stellar price but make sure you have a machine that can write MDISK
- To protect your files, the data is burned in a stone-like storage layer that is insensitive to light, temperature and moisture
- Industry standard ISO / IEC 10995 tests conducted by Millenniata indicated that the expected life of an MDISC DVD is 1,332 years and only 5% of media will show signs of data loss after 667 years
- It keeps the precious photographs, music libraries, medical documents and other important data stored on a storage medium for a lifetime
- Disc customization - printable: The printable Verbatim discs have a surface that can be printed with an inkjet printer. With the help of selectable motifs you can design the surface of the blank individually
- You need a BD-XL Blu-Ray burner
- to burn data onto the discs Note: 5 pieces are included in one package
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sorted byI remember the days when you were burning a CD then Norton or some equally aggressive program emptied your buffer mid-write! I can’t say I’ve touched an optical disk for years though now.
I just use redundant devices now, I don’t have access to a burner any more and I’ve noticed some supposed archival grade CD-R and DVD-R media has degraded since I burned them must have been 15-20 years ago.
I can remember buying printable DVD's for way cheaper than that years ago.
You just reminded me how amazing it was many years ago upgrading to a new Creative CD-RW with buffer under run protection.
Ritek G05 by any chance? I had an Epson Disc printer too
These are still too expensive to be practical, but think that's intentional otherwise we would be back to the mass saturation of pirate DVDs age
I remember when CDR blanks and 4.7gb DVD-R blanks were really expensive in single units
Now you can grab stack of 100 4.7gb DVD-R for about £20 or less
I still use optical disks for backing up things like photos and documents. They are however also backed up on a portable hard drive. Would probably trust the disks over the drive.
Just looked at a DVD written in 2003 and it's fine. Think I will copy it onto a new DVD just in case it degrades.
but any person who uses good practice will have the drive backed up and can get another drive and copy it across
plus over time, people will usually get more data and with drives generally getting bigger and cheaper over time, move/upgrade to new bigger drives over time, so in reference to the 15 year period someone mentioned, in 15 years, i can't imagine many people interested in data collection/backing up etc to the degree they would have a BDXL burner (as that was one of the more expensive and less available types of drives when BD burners became popular years ago) and buy discs to burn data, would not be properly backing up data on HDD and upgrading drives so over time the old data is shifted to newer drives
i used to burn a lot of discs and even have a couple of HDdvd/Bluray combo drives and even i never bothered with the BDXL drives, mainly as the media was way too expensive originally and HDD sizes were pretty big and reasonably priced at the time
instead of burning files to a disc to play and watch stuff on the tv, you can just stream with a firestick or android box with kodi or plex and you don't need to change discs etc
Not to mention the fact that if you drop a DVD on the floor it's almost certainly going to be absolutely fine. Drop a 4TB external HDD on the floor - say bye bye to the £50+ drive plus your 4TB of data.
Price is up again.
That is excatly the use for them.