M-DISC MDBD015 - Blank Blu-Ray Discs (Spindle)

I use these to keep my programs backed up on a media that says it will last 1000 years. I hope this truly does last that long, but obviously I will not be here to see. I just hope that optical drives are still around in a 1000 years so family members can still read them! Imagine having your descendants look at pictures and videos of their family tree many generations later!So far, I've burned 6 M-Disc's without issues. I do use a program named from a Roman Emperor. I use the Burning Rom edition only. I've used this program for years and it has always been great for me.So far these discs are working well, but word of warning. These disc only contain 22.5 GB of space that you can burn to. I'm not sure what happened to sizes when they went with GB sizes. 1MB used to mean 1024 bytes, but since companies went into larger sizes they seem to not really provide the full size anymore.This is not a rip on M-DISC brand, but just a comment on memory and space you really get.If you are looking for a long term storage solution, I would recommend you try these to keep family photos and videos around for a long time.I know others have said they have gotten bad discs, but honestly you need to keep other programs closed out during a burn session. So one, get a good burning program and two get these discs.

The M-Disc line (CD, DVD, Blu-Ray) are not for everyday use due to their cost, but if you have an M-Disc compatible drive and want to store information, photos, videos, etc. for generations without worrying about the ~5 year lifespan of most standard recordable discs (organic dyes degrade as years pass, M-Discs never degrade (even with abuse, hot storage, light exposure, etc.). I use them to record family photos and the home videos I've edited and given to my children. These discs will certainly still be around when my CD/DVD players are as obsolete at my 5.25" floppy discs (but at least the data will be able to be transferred to whatever the new technology is). I wish the discs were a bit cheaper, but for irreplaceable info, they're a bargain.

These discs work fine, but though there is 25GB capacity, you can't realistically get that unfortunately. I tried (and wasted) several recordings at and around 23-25GB and they all failed... I thought I had a bad drive or bad discs... then I noticed the actual capacity of a new and empty disc in explorer at 23.3GB. So I lowered my data to 21GB and it worked fine. Through several more recordings, I so far have not had a failure if I keep the data under 23GB. I haven't yet researched why this is, because there is only a small file on each new disc that is miniscule, so not sure why I can't get 25GB or closer to it, but that's my experience. I have an LG BE14NU40 burner. Otherwise the discs work great.The inkjet writeable ones are best if you want to label... evidently writing on a regular disc could eventually leach ink on the reflective surface with time and render your disc corrupt. You can write on the small "inside circle" where no data is if you need to label it with anything, but write small! : ) Otherwise get the inkjet writeable ones that have an extra layer for labeling.I have lost 2 hard drives within a week before... losing my primary data and backup data... so backups with HDs is not the most dependable method of backup! Flash drives, Hard drives, they all will fail. And so will these... eventually. But it does provide a restoral point and keeping the important data on at least two seperate media at any point in time will allow a restoral if one fails. If interested in a reliable archival system, there are several articles on the net to get an idea of what works for you. Some ideas are too cumbersome to keep up with. I am now using a dual HDD system for immediate backups, and these discs for archiving long term. I store these at a different location, for extra security. This is for stuff I just absolutely don't want to lose, i.e. videos of the kids, pictures, etc... When technology changes, I can always move to it at any time.For now, this is best for my purpose. They work great.

If you're not burning on M-Disc, you are burning temporary discs.I've had no difficulty using these discs on a variety of burners. I've played the discs on at least a dozen players with no problem. If you want your data or movies to last, this is the answer. I normally buy these with a blank white cover. That way I can run them into my Epson printer that can print discs. Very professional look.

This was a gift to me from my wife, along with a LG BE14NU Blueray Burner. No problems burning MDisc DVDs but so far I'm 0 for 2 on getting these Blu-ray discs to properly burn. While the burn appears to work, when I try to verify the discs they can't be read other than reading the directory. I used two different applications to attempt to do a binary comparison of the disc to the original data without success. The first was verification within the burning software applications IMGBURN and Power2Go. The other was Beyond Compare. Not only were the discs unreadable I had to reboot my PC as the programs/Windows 8.1 wouldn't release the drive. :(I used IMGBURN for my first burn and Power2Go (which came with the LG burner) for the second burn. Prior to the second burn I upgraded the burner's firmware from 1.00 to 1.01.03. The verification process hung with burn burning applications.As LG is one of those companies that treats its customers as idiots and they will not provide information as to what is being addressed in a firmware upgrade it is possible that the firmware did the trick.As the discs are warranted I will try only a few more before taking action.OS: Windows 8.1Memory: 8GB DDR3-1300AMD Athlon X4 640Disc: WD 1TB BlackMB: MSI 785GM