Questions About Writing to M-DISC

[Apollo11]

I have a few questions about writing data to M-DISC:

1. After ripping the contents of a Blu-Ray disc to some folder called e.g. "Stargate_SG1_BR_S6D2" could I with the appropriate M-DISC drive write that folder to said M-DISC as a "Raw Backup" and have it be unencrypted?
2. If the above would work could I write several such "Raw Backups" to a BD-XL M-DISC?
3. I understand that my Pioneer BDR-UD04 can write to M-DISCs; that's what I can gather from reading the description by Asmcom on Ebay: https://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/266144803060
4. What would be the recommended software for this on Windows 10?

[asmcom]

I have a few questions about writing data to M-DISC:

1. After ripping the contents of a Blu-Ray disc to some folder called e.g. "Stargate_SG1_BR_S6D2" could I with the appropriate M-DISC drive write that folder to said M-DISC as a "Raw Backup" and have it be unencrypted?
2. If the above would work could I write several such "Raw Backups" to a BD-XL M-DISC?
3. I understand that my Pioneer BDR-UD04 can write to M-DISCs; that's what I can gather from reading the description by Asmcom on Ebay: https://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/266144803060
4. What would be the recommended software for this on Windows 10?

After ripping the contents of a Blu-Ray disc to some folder called e.g. "Stargate_SG1_BR_S6D2" could I with the appropriate M-DISC drive write that folder to said M-DISC as a "Raw Backup" and have it be unencrypted?

Answer: You could make a backup for long time storage but it will not play on conventional 4K UHD player. Some player very few will play up to 66GB but none will play the 100GB discs. I copy all my files to my NAS Drive which runs as raid 6 and play the ISO container with full menus via my Dune Media Player



[*]If the above would work could I write several such "Raw Backups" to a BD-XL M-DISC

Answer: Considering a4K Bluray files is anything from 50GB to 100Gb you could only 2 copies.


[*]I understand that my Pioneer BDR-UD04 can write to M-DISCs; that's what I can gather from reading the description by Asmcom on Ebay: https://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/266144803060

Answer: Yes this is correct

[*]What would be the recommended software for this on Windows 10?

Answer: I use Imgburn for all burning of my discs. This is a question for open forum to see what forum members prefer.

[Apollo11]

Thanks for the information!

My intention is not to play directly from the BD-XL M-DISCS, if the original Blu-Ray disc of my most valued movies is lost I could just copy the unencrypted contents from the M-DISC and use MakeMKV to pick out the desired files again.

Would this Verbatim M-DISC pack work?:
https://www.computersalg.se/i/1432061/v ... -cd-fodral

[asmcom]

Thanks for the information!

My intention is not to play directly from the BD-XL M-DISCS, if the original Blu-Ray disc of my most valued movies is lost I could just copy the unencrypted contents from the M-DISC and use MakeMKV to pick out the desired files again.

Would this Verbatim M-DISC pack work?:
https://www.computersalg.se/i/1432061/v ... -cd-fodral

I have never done this but the drive does support MDISC so there should not be a problem.

Asmcom

[Apollo11]

Thanks for the information!

My intention is not to play directly from the BD-XL M-DISCS, if the original Blu-Ray disc of my most valued movies is lost I could just copy the unencrypted contents from the M-DISC and use MakeMKV to pick out the desired files again.

Would this Verbatim M-DISC pack work?:
https://www.computersalg.se/i/1432061/v ... -cd-fodral

I have never done this but the drive does support MDISC so there should not be a problem.

Asmcom

Thanks again!

[flojo]

You don't need "M-Disc" to do this and I mention this because your linked site has M-Disc selling at 2x the price of non-M-Disc.

For the intent of pure "backup", BD-XL 100GB is still a great price option and even for long term storage it's generally better unless you have 1000+ discs.

It's worth noting that the long running BD-XL cost of ~50USD per terabyte has been surpassed by 2TB SSD's and soon 1TB SSD's and as such, SSD's soon might be the better option.

NOTE: I've never burned a single blu-ray disc of any kind, I use a NAS.