I have begun burning my files, mostly pics and videos, onto the MDisks. They are an excellent back-up for my files and if the advertising is true, will last for a thousand years. Not sure if I will live to see it. Maybe I will put them in a time capsule.

Alle Scheiben fehlerfrei auf Pioneer-Laufwerk gebrannt. Ob diese Scheiben wirklich 100 Jahre Lebensdauer haben werde ich nicht mehr feststellen können...

I've always been concerned about exactly HOW LONG data could be stored over the years. Mag tape definitely isn't it, nor is data stored on SSD drives, etc., nor 'paper'....really! Come on! Not likely. Well, if you maintain a CD drive that can record & playback these 100Gb disks then THIS might just be what you are searching for. I finally did get one that seems to work well, after an earlier failure, and am in the process of testing it out. It seems to work well, with only a couple of minor hesitations during playback, but I think that's not an error, just the fact that it's mechanical and probably subject to such things occasionally with very large files-- I'm continuing testing and proving to myself how reliable it will be. The lifetime prospect (storage) for this type of media is way better than what I used before, despite the slower record time and greater cost. Something to work out later, I suppose.OK -- this 'later', and I got some blank BDXL Verbatim disks.....I experimented on the 1st one and was VERY happy with the quality, however the 'but' part of the testing is a 2-parter......Number 1 is the COST per disk is high, and since I'm sure you can't re-record over, you better not waste it.....the 2nd one is a killer, and it was SO slow recording you almost have to start the copy when you go to bed, because by the time it's done (91 Giga bytes writable space) it'll be next morning anyway. Probably minimum of 5-7 hours per disk. However, IF it works out to be the 'longest' storage capability, then so be it. It STILL works good.

Snelle levering

Dit zijn originele M-DISC's, omdat er berichten zijn dat dit gewone Blue Ray heb ik contact hierover gehad met de fabrikant / leverancier in Duitsland. Via mailcontact heeft hij mij overtuigd dat het de originele M-DISC zijn volgens M-DISC samenstelling, Ik heb inmiddels al 20 volgeschreven, zonder fout problemen.

>Gravure sans pb, les 25 Go sont +/- là.Mais le motif d'investir dans du M-Disc, c'est de pouvoir relire dans 5, 10, 20 ans ... difficile d'évaluer la qualité sur ce point avant qq années :-)

Parfait, les m-disc sont super car bezucoup plus resistant que les bd classic.

I closely followed the invention and introduction of M-Discs, because, perhaps foolishly, I wanted my family pictures and videos to last forever. Or at least a long time. Archiving anything digital now days is a huge problem. You have a bunch of choices, not all of them good. It's not like the old days where black and white photos from grandpa's photo albums or Kodachrome movies stuck into a closet could be pulled out 50 years later, and there's a good chance you'll still have an image.If you put your digital media on a hard drive and stick it on a shelf, the drive could easily seize up if you pull it out 10 years later. Flash drives are just as bad. You may not have anything after 10 years. The cloud? Now somebody has to pay the bills. What happens when environmentalists figure out all those data farms are a huge source of CO2? Or your grandchildren decide not to pay the Cloud monthly payments? Your digital memories are toast.So along comes M-Discs, which have a completely different formulation than standard organic dye blanks. The Navy allegedly compared M-discs to ordinary blanks by putting them out in the sun and rain. Data on M-discs survived a month of abuse. The other discs? The data was gone. Great. You can stick M-discs on a shelf and they'll be fine in 50 years because they say they last 1000 years.But wait! Will anybody have the players functioning? Look how fast storage technology is changing. Can you get grandpa's 8mm movie projector to work? Does your car still have an 8-track tape player? That's the problem. And to add to the confusion, supposedly some French Technology agency did another test of M-discs vs. "ordinary" archival blanks, and found they were all about the same, and that a little abuse made the data vanish. A completely different outcome from the earlier Navy tests. All these presents a real dilemma.I've rolled the dice and still use M-discs. I put warnings all over the labels I make to keep the discs out of the sun and hot attics, and to occasionally review technology options in case media needs to be transferred to new "better" storage mediums. You really just have to trust that somebody down the road cares about the past, and if they don't the good thing is YOU won't be around to care either. For medium term storage M-discs are great. You have your data, your privacy, and some level of extra durability. The NSA and the North Koreans aren't culling through your digits in the cloud, and thinking about erasing them. However, remember. Your house can burn down. Make an extra disk and store it elsewhere. Preferably out of a flood, fire and earthquake zone.They cost quite a bit more than ordinary blank discs, but I've never had one fade out like the ordinary organic disks have faded. And I also back things up on hard drives just in case. Multi-site and multi technology storage is about all you can do to keep your stuff for a while.