Solved! Do I need any special software to write data blu-ray disks?

[pmv]

Need to back some stuff up, so thinking of getting (finally) a blu-ray writer. Most of the cheaper ones come without any software. I don't care about playing blu-ray movies, but is there any complication I should be aware of with writing data blu-ray disks (on windows 10)?
(have been using an external HD, but it's full up, thinking Blu ray disks might be a better method at this point).

 

[Insert_Nickname]

Windows 10 has built-in writing support, both authored and packet writing. This is why you don't see bundled software any more. For authored burning, you will need enough free space on your primary drive (25GB for single layer, 50GB for double layer. 100-128GB for BDXL). That's about it.

If you need/want dedicated burning software, cdburnerxp is just a free download away.

 

[pmv]

Windows 10 has built-in writing support, both authored and packet writing. This is why you don't see bundled software any more. For authored burning, you will need enough free space on your primary drive (25GB for single layer, 50GB for double layer. 100-128GB for BDXL). That's about it.

If you need/want dedicated burning software, cdburnerxp is just a free download away.

Thanks for the information!

 

[damian101]

When getting a Blu-ray writer note that you need special Blu-ray writers for higher-capacity Blu-rays. M-Disc support is also a feature you might want to look out for when getting a more expensive Blu-ray writer.
To burn a Blu-ray data disk I can recommend ImgBurn and CDBurnerXP.

 

[MalVeauX]

Heya,

ImgBURN is free and burns perfectly to any capacity optical disc.

I recently used ImgBURN to make my image files and then burn them to 100Gb Verbatim M-Disc BD-R's. Each one came out perfect with 1:1 verification (and it took forever). I did about 1TB of data this way over 10 discs. Took a while. But it's excellent and hearty medium for storage (way better than HDD/SSD for long term attempt to store data).

The key to burning high capacity discs is to not attempt to get greedy with speed. Don't try to use write speeds of 4x or faster in general if you care about the data. Even with a buffer. Anyone who has burned a lot of discs on a system in use will be able to attest to what happens when you attempt to write fast data to large capacity discs. I highly, highly recommend you write at 2x for important data, with validation (it will take twice as long, but this ensures the report of your data being 1:1 versus it just being a guessing game if your written data is a perfect replication and accessible and usable or not). If you write at 4x or faster, it will work, but sometimes it may generate a coaster due to not being able to validate data as something happened in the process, be it a flipped bit or an error in the writing on the disc. Errors cannot be recovered in this writing process, so if a single bit is wrong, it will not validate and the disc is useless if you care about the data's integrity and usefulness.

So write slow, validate.

I use this BD-R burner (LINK; LG WH16NS40)

Very best,

 

[dlerious]

I recently used ImgBURN to make my image files and then burn them to 100Gb Verbatim M-Disc BD-R's. Each one came out perfect with 1:1 verification (and it took forever). I did about 1TB of data this way over 10 discs. Took a while. But it's excellent and hearty medium for storage (way better than HDD/SSD for long term attempt to store data).

Been using the same drive (or WH14NS40) to write M-disk. Also use dvdisaster to embed ECC data in the image - can also create a separate ECC file if wanted.