Just as an extra note, keeping backups should be strongly encouraged, but self-burned CD/DVD/BluRay are extremely easy to get scratched and then no longer be readable. The store bought disks have an extra plastic layer on the bottom that protects the actual data section of the disk, but in order to be able to burn them at home this extra plastic layer cannot be present. Thus any scratches/scuffs immediately damage the underlying data not just the plastic protection.
Self-burned discs is just added protection, ideally you should also have the files themselves stored both locally and on some form of external drive as well.
And technically, BD-R HTL discs are chemically similar to M-DISC DVDs in that they use an inorganic composite to store data where BD-R LTH discs are dye-based like CD-Rs and normal DVD-/+Rs, so they should be more robust because of that, not to mention M-DISC DVDs themselves use glassy carbon to store data.
Too bad there was never a CD-R equivalent to M-DISC DVDs because those would’ve been handy for burning WAV files or even FLAC files as an audio CD for long-term archival.
Just as an extra note, keeping backups should be strongly encouraged, but self-burned CD/DVD/BluRay are extremely easy to get scratched and then no longer be readable. The store bought disks have an extra plastic layer on the bottom that protects the actual data section of the disk, but in order to be able to burn them at home this extra plastic layer cannot be present. Thus any scratches/scuffs immediately damage the underlying data not just the plastic protection.
Self-burned discs is just added protection, ideally you should also have the files themselves stored both locally and on some form of external drive as well.
And technically, BD-R HTL discs are chemically similar to M-DISC DVDs in that they use an inorganic composite to store data where BD-R LTH discs are dye-based like CD-Rs and normal DVD-/+Rs, so they should be more robust because of that, not to mention M-DISC DVDs themselves use glassy carbon to store data.
Too bad there was never a CD-R equivalent to M-DISC DVDs because those would’ve been handy for burning WAV files or even FLAC files as an audio CD for long-term archival.
Thank you for the reply. I definitely learned something new about long term storage today.