Verbatim M DISC BDXL 100GB 6X with Branded Surface Blank Blu-Ray Recordable Media – 5pk Jewel Case Box,Blue

I've always been concerned about exactly HOW LONG data could be stored over the years. Mag tape definitely isn't it, nor is data stored on SSD drives, etc., nor 'paper'....really! Come on! Not likely.Well, if you maintain a CD drive that can record & playback these 100Gb disks then THIS might just be what you are searching for. I finally did get one that seems to work well, after an earlier failure, and am in the process of testing it out. It seems to work well, with only a couple of minor hesitations during playback, but I think that's not an error, just the fact that it's mechanical and probably subject to such things occasionally with very large files-- I'm continuing testing and proving to myself how reliable it will be. The lifetime prospect (storage) for this type of media is way better than what I used before, despite the slower record time and greater cost. Something to work out later, I suppose.OK -- this 'later', and I got some blank BDXL Verbatim disks.....I experimented on the 1st one and was VERY happy with the quality, however the 'but' part of the testing is a 2-parter......Number 1 is the COST per disk is high, and since I'm sure you can't re-record over, you better not waste it.....the 2nd one is a killer, and it was SO slow recording you almost have to start the copy when you go to bed, because by the time it's done (91 Giga bytes writable space) it'll be next morning anyway. Probably minimum of 5-7 hours per disk. However, IF it works out to be the 'longest' storage capability, then so be it. It STILL works good.

I closely followed the invention and introduction of M-Discs, because, perhaps foolishly, I wanted my family pictures and videos to last forever. Or at least a long time. Archiving anything digital now days is a huge problem. You have a bunch of choices, not all of them good. It's not like the old days where black and white photos from grandpa's photo albums or Kodachrome movies stuck into a closet could be pulled out 50 years later, and there's a good chance you'll still have an image.If you put your digital media on a hard drive and stick it on a shelf, the drive could easily seize up if you pull it out 10 years later. Flash drives are just as bad. You may not have anything after 10 years. The cloud? Now somebody has to pay the bills. What happens when environmentalists figure out all those data farms are a huge source of CO2? Or your grandchildren decide not to pay the Cloud monthly payments? Your digital memories are toast.So along comes M-Discs, which have a completely different formulation than standard organic dye blanks. The Navy allegedly compared M-discs to ordinary blanks by putting them out in the sun and rain. Data on M-discs survived a month of abuse. The other discs? The data was gone. Great. You can stick M-discs on a shelf and they'll be fine in 50 years because they say they last 1000 years.But wait! Will anybody have the players functioning? Look how fast storage technology is changing. Can you get grandpa's 8mm movie projector to work? Does your car still have an 8-track tape player? That's the problem. And to add to the confusion, supposedly some French Technology agency did another test of M-discs vs. "ordinary" archival blanks, and found they were all about the same, and that a little abuse made the data vanish. A completely different outcome from the earlier Navy tests. All these presents a real dilemma.I've rolled the dice and still use M-discs. I put warnings all over the labels I make to keep the discs out of the sun and hot attics, and to occasionally review technology options in case media needs to be transferred to new "better" storage mediums. You really just have to trust that somebody down the road cares about the past, and if they don't the good thing is YOU won't be around to care either. For medium term storage M-discs are great. You have your data, your privacy, and some level of extra durability. The NSA and the North Koreans aren't culling through your digits in the cloud, and thinking about erasing them. However, remember. Your house can burn down. Make an extra disk and store it elsewhere. Preferably out of a flood, fire and earthquake zone.They cost quite a bit more than ordinary blank discs, but I've never had one fade out like the ordinary organic disks have faded. And I also back things up on hard drives just in case. Multi-site and multi technology storage is about all you can do to keep your stuff for a while.

These disks are the only reliable long-term storage I am aware of. I can't figure out why they're not more popular.

Ordered wrong item at the wrong time great product

As overall, the disks are good. The only reason i put 4 star is because disk size is actually 90GB, not 100GB.Unfortunately, I've screwed my first disk, because on macOS - you can't see the real disk size, so when I tried to burn about 99GB on it - it failed miserably at the end. Then decided to check on Windows and there you can see that the real disk size is about 90GB.

I bought a five pack of these on Amazon listed as "USED LIKE NEW" at a slightly discounted price.One of the disks had a deep gouge on the write surface near the center, possibly a factory defect. I didn't realize this at first when I loaded it into the blu-ray writer -- a PIONEER BDR-2212 BD/DVD/CD internal drive. Thankfully, I didn't damage the drive as a result! The disk being unusable, I threw it away. I could have returned the entire pack for a refund but I wanted to test the remaining disks, and my actual losses only amounted to a few dollars anyway.The remaining four disk were free of defects and burned without error. Just to be sure, I verified the contents of each disk on a separate blu-ray drive using the "fc" command under the Windows Command Prompt, comparing the contents of the burned disk with the original files on the hard drive. No differences were encountered.Despite receiving a defective disk, I would still rank these disks as being very high quality. I plan to buy a larger pack in the future to see if they work as well as these.

I love this discs. They are the only ones that guarantee that the images or data stored in them will last for decades to come. Unfortunately, they are monumentally expensive, therefore you will need to decide which documents/photos/data is so important that you are willing to use These discs to save it.In the past, I have bought the 50 GB version, however, I feel like the 100 GB version is a much better fit, considering the large data requirements that people have these days. All in all, I find this discs to be amazing, I just wish they were a little bit cheaper. And then I would probably buy them a lot more frequently