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Ah, of course. I shall continue doing something I already know doesn't work(hard drives) on the say so of a German computer magazine. Thank you for your time.

Are you unfamiliar with M-disks?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/M-DISC

These were specifically invented for archival media longevity.

I've been down the hard disk backup route, been storing my data that way for 2 decades now. I have also lost large swaths of it multiple times that way. Fact is hard disks are good for ~5 years at a time, at most, even as offline storage. And yes they can and absolutely do fail just sitting on a she...

Well I have the LG WH16NS60; reviews said it burned the BD XL disks just fine(though not what software they are using). Would like to get my ducks in a row before I make a $5 coaster. The reason for using M-disks(Millenium Disks) is for very long-term archival purposes. I have no intention of using ...

I may be asking in the wrong place. I finally got a drive capable of burning BD XL 100gb disks. I'm not remotely interested in creating playable blu-rays(mostly becuase I do't own a blu-ray player) but am planning to use this for long-term data archiving using M-Disks. Do I need some kind of special...

That would do it. Thanks!

I'm more curious than confused as I know there must be an answer. I have a regular DVD, not sure quite where the main film is so I just ripped the whole thing, some I ended up with 38 gigs worth of files. How did 38gb fit on an ordinary disk?

Well I seem to have resolved my speed issue: turns out if you're doing literally anything else besides ripping the DVD it absolutely kills the speed. No idea WHY, but everything went way faster when I set it to go then went and did something else.

So I tried fiddling with a couple more things and got it up to 25mb/s... for about half the disk. Then it dropped down to 8.1 and says its going to take 60 hours. This is crazy.

Hi all, In my continuing saga of trying to rip some UHD disks I bought by mistake, I have successfully ripped the first disk of a 2 disk movie!!! And now the second disk is proving weirdly difficult. I wasn't paying attention to exactly how long the first disk took but I know it can't have been more...

So I'm a tad new to MakeMKV(I did use it as part of Auto Gordian Knott 15 someodd years ago, but that was, well, automated); but am I correctly understanding that the process involves first copying the entire DVD to disk, THEN converting the video out? Or is it possible to simply rip and convert the...

Whoops. That explains it. Ran: makemkvcon64.exe f --all-yes -d I: rawflash enc -i C:\AA_Master\fw\HL-DT-ST-BD-RE_WH16NS60-1.02-NM00100-211810291936.bin Got: Reading input file C:\AA_Master\fw\HL-DT-ST-BD-RE_WH16NS60-1.02-NM00100-211810291936.bin Flashing flags = 0x0 : 0 0 0 0 : ---- ---- ---- ---- S...

Ok... after all that... I heroically dropped my disk in the drive and MakeMKV says... no disk inserted.

I know someone only wanted the “ROM” but I believe these are all gone (in the “Dustbin Of Time” - like Cassettes or CD Players - LOL :P ). My 2 Cent Seems to be the consensus. Like I said there was a time when ROMs cost waaaay less, but I see that time has passed. Ok, so I bought the WH14NS40 drive...

it comes with a regular bluray. Heh, not the ones I bought. Full disclosure: I have never previously done anything at all with blu-ray; I thought it was inferior to HD DVD, overpriced, and being propped up entirely by shady "exclusivity" agreements. SO I don't own a blu-ray player, drives...