Question M-Disc DVD

[gamerfan]

M-Disc DVD is fake or durable? I have the M-Disc DVD Verbatim but the contact on the mdisc site doesn't work so I can contact engineer and manufacturer

 

[UsandThem]

M-Disc DVD is fake or durable? I have the M-Disc DVD Verbatim but the contact on the mdisc site doesn't work so I can contact engineer and manufacturer

It's likely because they killed any such departments some time ago.

What you are doing is like someone in 2010 wanting to continue using floppy discs for storage. Disc based storage like DVD and Blu-ray has been on life support for many years now, and it will only continue to decline until the media becomes more rare (and expensive).

 

[gamerfan]

what most durable media?

 

[UsandThem]

what most durable media?

Like it was suggested in your other thread about this subject, you should use hard drives.

 

[gamerfan]

HDD is fragile mechanical

 

[UsandThem]

HDD is fragile mechanical

And discs aren't fragile?

 

[razel]

Are you just looking for long or longish term backups? If so just use HDDs but have two rotating copies. I've been just buying 5TB Seagate Portable for $90, but I been buying two. I used to make backups 6 months apart. One I labelled 1st half, other 2nd half. However, lately I've lazied on down to every other year and I just buy a new drive when the warranty of one expires. Forcing yourself to refresh the bits every few years helps and obviously buying a new drive every few years helps as well. The warranty doesn't cover data recovery, but you do get a discount. I've luckily never needed to since I have yet to have a drive fail.

Works out to be about $90 a year but that is cheap peace of mind that it's very hard to lose my precious original quality family photos/videos/etc. Of course you can spend that $90 a year for online backups, but my upload speed at home is not fast enough.