M-Disc Format, Another Gimmick?

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   Many good points here have been made.

I've had many, probably dozens Memorex and Ritek DVD-r and DVD+R discs fail and a huge number within the first 18 months and all were stored properly/temp controlled. The burner was not the same for each bad as back then I had multiple in several PC's. This was all prior to mid 2003 when I learned to avoid those brands. 

It's important to note the media contained file backups they were not Video format DVD's. CD/redbook format, DVD video format, Blu-ray video format burned media just like factory pressed has builtin in data redundancy unlike directory of your file system burned to CD or DVD or Blu-ray.

I was a huge Taiyo and Verbatim (NOT The life series) fan from around 2003-2015. I have had the dreaded CRC errors on 1 or 2 of each brand in that time but that was it.

After 2015 I moved everything to Disc drives and to "Cloud"

Thing about burned media is if the dye layer had a flaw you probably wont know until you try to pull data back at future point and are unable. In addition a burner can be near end of life and verify might show ok right after the burn, but it really did not burn the dye effectively for long term.

IMHO optical media has out lived its function. One of the least expensive things in tech is disc and price of even solid-state drives are dropping very fast -- finally.  No more need for optical when 1TB Solid state or 2TB "standard" portable is ~$60. Just keep 2-3 backups via physical and or "Cloud" and welcome to the 21st century :)

Edited by whyaduck

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	Many good points here have been made. I've had many, probably dozens Memorex and Ritek DVD-r and DVD+R discs fail and a huge number within the first 18 months and all were stored properly/temp controlled. The burner was not the same for each bad as back then I had multiple in several PC's. This was all prior to mid 2003 when I learned to avoid those brands. It's important to note the media contained file backups they were not Video format DVD's. CD/redbook format, DVD video format, Blu-ray video format burned media just like factory pressed has builtin in data redundancy unlike directory of your file system burned to CD or DVD or Blu-ray. I was a huge Taiyo and Verbatim (NOT The life series) fan from around 2003-2015. I have had the dreaded CRC errors on 1 or 2 of each brand in that time but that was it. After 2015 I moved everything to Disc drives and to "Cloud" Thing about burned media is if the dye layer had a flaw you probably wont know until you try to pull data back at future point and are unable. In addition a burner can be near end of life and verify might show ok right after the burn, but it really did not burn the dye effectively for long term. IMHO optical media has out lived its function. One of the least expensive things in tech is disc and price of even solid-state drives are dropping very fast -- finally. No more need for optical when 1TB Solid state or 2TB "standard" portable is ~$60. Just keep 2-3 backups via physical and or "Cloud" and welcome to the 21st century :) Edited by whyaduck