Recent content by hikes

No. The best, as I understand it, are those that can do 1:1 writes and have a firmware version that doesn't limit the hardware. Apparently, some writers are designed without limitations, and that enables things like playing movies with any region and even making backups of your movies so you can...

You could always just make an ISO of it . . . apparently!

As I understand it, if you're trying to preserve data for as long as possible, it's always better to do so uncompressed. The reason is because each bit in the compressed data applies to multiple locations in the uncompressed data.

Holy freaking crepes!!! WT bananas! How in the world does somebody tell you, "It's taking 24 hours to copy-paste everything," and then you think, "Hmmm, well then making an ISO of it should only take you about an hour." How the hockey does something like this make sense to you?!?! Holy mother...

You might just be right. After reading your comment, I paid more attention to the copy-paste progress window, and I've since written a couple different sets of data to another two of the 100GB M-Discs that I had purchased. The progress window seems to show the slowest, Byte-level, transfer...

OS: Win 10 pro 21H2 64b HW: ASUS BW-16D1HT rev. 3.10 internal bluray writer (Yeah, I know, that's probably the last firmware update, aka, the one designed to make you want to buy a new one. IF . . . IF it is, then I'll remember that when looking for a new writer.) BD: Verbatim 100GB BDXL...