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Re:Sony and Panasonic announce the Archival Disc format by epaladin on Monday March 10, 2014 @10:26AM (#7373051)
I've read that MO is much more stable/reliable than writable DVD/BD. I spent a lot of time tracking down certain Taiyo Yuden discs to try to maximize the chance that I'd be able to read the data from DVD-Rs a couple of years later. I've heard a lot of negative things about BD-R reliability. Did you find that MO was better in terms of lifetime?
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Re:Sony and Panasonic announce the Archival Disc format by hga on Monday March 10, 2014 @11:09AM (#7373319)
Taiyo Yuden DVD recordable media as of a few years ago cost 1 cent more than their renown CD-R media. I don't trust it for anything serious, I barely trust MAM-A Gold DVD-RWs.

I played the MO game in the '90s and found them to be rock solid, and durable as well (e.g. I'd throw a disk cartridge in my backpack without problems). Theoretically they looked quite quite solid.

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