Kabombon

I see... From what I can figure out, the 3 batches you tested might have been manufactured in different dates so they must have aged by at least an year, the batch which worked probably was newer too. And it might also be that, before you got them, they have been kept in improper conditions in the warehouse by the retailer. While all this is simply a theory, it's a fact that not all discs are made the same. Best we can do is to see what we get from our order, burn the stuff to the discs, watch them over from time to time. If issues appear, we could research what we think that happened to the disc, how long did it take since it was burned (and how long was it since delivery). Conclusion is that we are lacking proper experimental data, of like... 10 discs of each variant from all manufacturers, where they burn the same content at the same time and are tested in different storage environments to see how they degrade, how long does it take, if can data be salvaged and so on. I will keep using these discs and provide data from time to time.

This is old news, because many already did many variants of a "Petabit Optical Disk" all over the work, the oldest variant being this one: Hyper CD-ROM According to Wikipedia, the technology used to make this disc was used by Sony to make the system named "Blu-Ray". This has a theoretical limit of 100EB (Exabytes) but until litography technology reaches that level, let's say the "Petabyte Disk" is attainable right now in labs pretty easily, and should see the light out of the box in consumer houses in the next 20-30 years. (yes, that late because there's little interes, and because what dbminter said is valid too) NOTE for dbminter: Even if the disc is WAY bigger than the total storage the consumer would have in his house, he can still burn to such a disc little by little using it exactly like a hardrive, although the files will permanently stay there and take up storage, unless he would use a ReWritable variant of the disc.

Personally I had no issue burning on the BD-R SL discs from MediaRange which is (CMCMAG-BA5-000) and I've burned 66 discs until now from 3 different spindles so according to their known low build quality and drive burning issues, I should have had at least one discs to fail while burning. None so far. All there is to do now is verify the discs on yearly basis and see if they start getting dead sectors. Especially if there are visible signs of disc rot.

1PB (petabyte) is equal to 1080TB (terabyte) which is equal to 1166400GB (gigabyte) After formating to the filesystem on Windows it becomes a round 1000TB or 1000000GB. So doing the same math as above using these values, it would be like this: 1166400 / 25 = 46656 (discs to burn) 46656 * 20 = 933120 (minutes of burning discs) 933120 / 60 = 15552 (hours of burning discs) 15552 / 24 = 648 (days of burning discs) All this would mean: 1 year and 283 days of burning discs.

Hi, I'm new around here and this is my first post on ImgBurn's forum so bear with me 🤔 A friend of mine started doing a pretty nice project with an animated series I liked, but due to the sheer size the final result had I was in a pinch deciding where to actually store all of it... after thinking on the situation for a bit I reached the conclusion to use BD-R discs. For my needs best would have been BD-R DL or BD-R XL but their price kept me VERY far away, so single layer (SL) discs were the way to go. Considering the market in my state and prices in local retailers, I decided to get spindles of MediaRange BD-R SL discs at a price of 0.59$/disc with shipping included. Upon the arrival of 4 spindles containing 25 discs each I started researching on the best method to burn BD-R discs with ImgBurn, after a few dozen discs burned with no issues, I wanted to see how high rated are they among other people by searching the disc's ID. (now imagine how deep my soul started sinking when I saw that CMC discs had a high failure rate after burning them an year or so later) I've started doing a comprehensive list of .IBG files from ImgBurn's burning results, making snapshots of DVDInfoPro's graphs, gathering information about the discs and my Blu-Ray Writer, which doesn't have pretty good reviews either (soul proceeds to sink deeper) and I am now patiently waiting for them to reach 1 year old so I can start verifying and testing them if they TRULY are that cheap for a reason. I'll leave below Google Drive links of my research's results, so if anyone sees the information I provide here as useful and actually tries to work with these discs, tell me how it went in the thread. ImgBurn Graph Data Files (66 Discs) DVDInfoPro Graph Snapshots (66 Discs) DISC INFO Package Photos And here is the data of the driver I've used to burn these discs with. (maybe relevant to those who burn the same discs but with another writer and have, or not, issues with the discs afterwards) ASUS BW-16D1X-U NOTE 1: Unfortunately, it would seem this Blu-Ray Writer doesn't support PIPO scans, so proper verification according to the standard of ImgBurn's team won't be possible unless I get my hands on one which supports it. NOTE 2: I will update the content of the links above with more data after the first year since I burned the discs ends. As I will make a verification for each disc to see if they have any failures with VSO Inspector. NOTE 3: Any ideas of how I could research the discs further would be an awesome help 😥 THANKS FOR READING!