19 Mar
2013
19 Mar
'13
4:27 p.m.
On 03/19/2013 02:52 PM, TeoZ wrote:
Never heard of it until now. Looks like they got rid
of the dye layer
and just burn pits into the medium (wonder what power laser they use).
No price for the burner (probably super pricey). $25 for a 4.5gb disk
isn't too bad, but its not something you can archive large amounts of
video with.
That's $30 for a 10-pack, or $3 one plain old DVD. The writer (LG
GH24NS90) seems to be between #20-30 retail.
The Navy did some tests:
http://www.mdisc.com/docs/chinalakemillenniatatestreport_mod_04feb2010_a.pdf
and the M-disc appears to be the only one that passed after aging at 85C
and various illumination and humidity.
I dunno--the price-point is right for archival storage.
--Chuck