I have a few of these drives. They also rip discs very accurately. Bit-identical to my Plextor, at a fraction of the price. But sadly no ripping software offers these the verification logging that is required for redump approval.
noinsight 29 minutes ago [-]
The drives to read them (Blu-rays) will be the problem. Pioneer stopped manufacturing them in 2024, only LG drives are available now.
Coincidentally I just bought one, they’ve doubled in price now recently.
Also bought some M-Discs to try. They’re half the price in Japan (Amazon) compared to Germany.
numpad0 17 minutes ago [-]
I wonder why every types of discs seem to be entering a de facto deprecated state over the last ~10 years, especially inorganic types are. Is it simply because everyone's on Netflix? Or could it be environmental/material cost issues?
I believe these discs are made by transferring materials by vaporizing them in a series of big vacuum chambers, maybe those materials are toxic and/or China dominated and nobody wants to deal with them anymore?
Avamander 4 minutes ago [-]
There's just no mass-market appeal?
Large storage hyperscalers or whatever just use tape?
I can't wait for tape patents to expire.
sehw 14 minutes ago [-]
I bought 3 burners and burn 2x copies of every 100GB disc. Only Verbatim burners seem to not fail with 50+Gb discs. By the way!
hulitu 3 days ago [-]
> M-DISC – DVD/Blu-ray compatible discs
citation needed. My DVD/Blu-ray writer does not support M-DISC
> may last up to 1000 years
or may not. Who knows ?
ricardobeat 1 hours ago [-]
The discs are entirely compliant with the Blu-Ray spec, there is no “compatibility” mark; anything made in the past 10-15 years should work fine. Your writer may be out of spec?
Apparently original M-Disc DVDs required a more powerful laser than normal, but that is not the case for Blu-Ray.
buckle8017 7 minutes ago [-]
Confusingly you need an MDISC writer for some but not all disks.
Any bluray reader will work to read tho.
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Coincidentally I just bought one, they’ve doubled in price now recently.
Also bought some M-Discs to try. They’re half the price in Japan (Amazon) compared to Germany.
I believe these discs are made by transferring materials by vaporizing them in a series of big vacuum chambers, maybe those materials are toxic and/or China dominated and nobody wants to deal with them anymore?
Large storage hyperscalers or whatever just use tape?
I can't wait for tape patents to expire.
citation needed. My DVD/Blu-ray writer does not support M-DISC
> may last up to 1000 years
or may not. Who knows ?
Apparently original M-Disc DVDs required a more powerful laser than normal, but that is not the case for Blu-Ray.
Any bluray reader will work to read tho.