New burner for archiving

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qwerty01
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New burner for archiving

#1 Post by qwerty01 » Sat Nov 11, 2023 7:40 am

Hello, I am looking for a blue-ray burner for archiving files. They will be burned on 25 GB and 50 GB mdiscs. Maybe in the future they will be 100 GB. What kind of drive should I buy? I see that the BH16NS55 is quite popular. Is there any point in flashing on WH16NS60? What will such a modification give me? I will be burning from 2 discs a year. I am interested in an internal writer.
I will not be ripping movies, so LD is unnecessary for me.

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Re: New burner for archiving

#2 Post by dcoke22 » Sat Nov 11, 2023 4:31 pm

The consensus seems to be that the Pioneer drives are the best for burning.

Supposedly the LG drives often don't handle the layer change durning a burn very well. That means they can burn single layer 25GB discs okay, but not dual layer 50GB discs.

I haven't really burned a disc in years, so I don't have any personal experience here; I'm just regurgitating my received wisdom from this forum.

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Re: New burner for archiving

#3 Post by Coopervid » Sat Nov 11, 2023 6:16 pm

Please archive to hard disk. More affordable and disc quality has gone south. If you still want to burn discs read this for 50+GB discs.

https://forum.redfox.bz/threads/the-lon ... -tl.86133/

qwerty01
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Re: New burner for archiving

#4 Post by qwerty01 » Sun Nov 12, 2023 7:51 am

I keep photos and videos on my phones, my server, the backup will also be on another computer (in another apartment), but I also want to burn on discs (backup 3-2-1).
As far as I can see, Pioneer recorders at my place are only available externally (on USB 3).

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