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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

All Blu-Ray burners are M-Disc Blu-Ray burners. What's more, there was even before some contention regarding how/if they're actually different but now as Verbatim isn't the "japanese Verbatim" they don't even bother to put the different metadata (MILLEN...) for the M-Discs, so they are probably 100% the same except for the box/spindle label.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 11 months ago (1 children)

but I am planning on making it external with adapters and what not!

Make sure that the adapter you get supports optical drives and has an external 12V PSU.

I use an LG BH16NS55 myself. My best drive.

If it is just for this you can use pretty much any drive just make sure it supports Bluray XL although any on the market right now should do so.

Unless I am mistaken any Bluray birner can burn MDisk Blurays just fine. Unlike M Disk DVDs they do not need a special laser.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 11 months ago (1 children)

Thanks for your comment:)

Yeah man, I'm getting a SATA to USB 3.0 adapter that has a 12v input with the power supply with it so that shall be good. (I've checked the voltages and what not)

Cool, thanks. I'm in the UK so I would probably have to import one.

[–] [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.