M-discs anyone?

[MaxDepth]

Anyone using M-discs? I've searched the threads and came up with a few that are a couple years old.

Now that I have babies! (twins) My storage is being filled with baby pictures and now I'd like to keep them a bit more permanent. Some of the CDs I've burned in the last decade are fading; some of the more expensive are failing just as readily as the cheaper ones.

I went ahead and bought the LG WH14NS40; it was on sale on Amazon and just because I needed a new DVD burner for my developer rig. This model should burn the blu-ray DVD m-discs (25 GB).


On a side project, I am going to print some of these pictures on archival ink and paper for two photo albums for the girls as they age and at some point for them to have on their own. So far my research has taken me to having the pictures printer by a third party instead of buying a printer.

 

[gbeirn]

No experience with M-discs but I do still use DVD-RAM disks for archival purposes.

Edit: Multiple copies is still the best backup solution. Whatever the medium.

 

[Micrornd]

I've been using the DVD M-disks for 2 yrs, just like you for, photo storage.
That's just a short time, but I have had no readability problems.

 

[Mark R]

The M-disc technology is extremely similar to regular BD-R technology. Essentially, it back ports HTL recording technology to DVD; the chemistry isn't identical to BD-R, but it brings much of the same benefits.

Just avoid BD-R LTH, because that replaces the high-cost BD-R recording layer with something akin to conventional DVD chemistry (with its low cost, but reduced reliability).