M-Disc: What Does The Durability Data Say?
Channel: Daniel Rosehill
Date: 2022-06-03

There's a lot of animated discussion on Reddit (especially the data hoarders subreddit) about the durability of M-Discs and whether they really live up to their claim of being incredibly durable - or at least significantly more so than other archival-grade products. My hot take on the matter: the skepticism is unfounded. M-Discs introduced a very innovative technology to the optical market and, if capacity could be scaled, they hold amazing promise as a cold/offline data storage technology that could result in massive energy savings from liberated cloud resources (in other words, M-Discs are a green cause!).

However, for those curious, there's also a wealth of information linked off the M-Disc Wikipedia shedding some light on the testing that the US Department of Defense, and others, have done to try to ascertain their stability. 

Mentioned during the video:

The ECMA-379 standard:
https://www.ecma-international.org/publications-and-standards/standards/ecma-379/

The M-Disc patent documentation which is available for inspection and download from Google Patents:

https://patentimages.storage.googleapis.com/67/33/22/ae3b96262b7bfb/US7613869.pdf

US DoD durability findings:

https://web.archive.org/web/20130422110903if_/http://www.mdisc.com:80/docs/chinalakemillenniatatestreport_mod_04feb2010_a.pdf

A shorter report from the (French) Laboratoires de Trappes R&D division:

https://www.lne.fr/sites/default/files/inline-files/syylex-glass-dvd-accelerated-aging-report.pdf
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