Yay for M-discs
Mar. 22nd, 2018 04:12 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
kengrI've just finished burning my first M-disc. It's a 100 gig BDXL.
It took an hour and a half to burn, and another hour for the burning software to verify the disk.
I'm now using Beyond Compare to compare it to the directory the files were burned for. when that completes, I can nuke them and the "original" copies on my far too full media server.
It'd be cheaper to use 2 50 gig M-discs or even 4 25 gig ones. but it's worth the extra money to have fewer discs to store.
At least with M-discs, I don't have to worry about the discs going bad from age, sunlight, or whatever. Just physical damage.
Gotta by more disks (of various sizes) to continue moving stuff off the sever (mostly old TV shows and some movies).
It took an hour and a half to burn, and another hour for the burning software to verify the disk.
I'm now using Beyond Compare to compare it to the directory the files were burned for. when that completes, I can nuke them and the "original" copies on my far too full media server.
It'd be cheaper to use 2 50 gig M-discs or even 4 25 gig ones. but it's worth the extra money to have fewer discs to store.
At least with M-discs, I don't have to worry about the discs going bad from age, sunlight, or whatever. Just physical damage.
Gotta by more disks (of various sizes) to continue moving stuff off the sever (mostly old TV shows and some movies).
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Date: 2018-03-22 04:58 pm (UTC)They do, apparently, make a version that uses clear artificial sapphire as a support layer... with a half-life of approximately several billion years. It would literally last longer than the sun.
I am not sure what to think of that.