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We are digital librarians. Among us are represented the various reasons to keep data -- legal requirements, competitive requirements, uncertainty of permanence of cloud services, distaste for transmitting your data externally (e.g. government or corporate espionage), cultural and familial archivists, internet collapse preppers, and people who do it themselves so they're sure it's done right. Everyone has their reasons for curating the data they have decided to keep (either forever or For A Damn Long Time (tm) ). Along the way we have sought out like-minded individuals to exchange strategies, war stories, and cautionary tales of failures.

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Thinking of buying an internal Blu-Ray "M-Disk" compatible drive (alien.top)

submitted 11 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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Just wanted some advice from you storage fellas! I decided that I am going to be using m-disks to long term archive videos and photos. Got some very important videos from when I was a kid and I don't want to risk losing them (I have backups on other media but not long term) I am looking for a good quality Blu-Ray "M-Disk" drive that is internal - but I am planning on making it external with adapters and what not! I don't particularly want to use an enclosure as it's too expensive for my budget.

Been looking on amazon for some, specifically the Hitachi-LG BH16, but I'd rather check here if you guys know if it's good etc...

Can you guys kindly recommend me a good drive that supports m-disk? Been looking for a few weeks now. Budget around £60 - £90 :)

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[–] [email protected] 1 points 11 months ago

Just make sure it also supports optical drives. Had to learn the hard way that not all do. And USB 3.0 is not strictly necassary as optical drives rarely take advantage of it.