Digital Archiving Using Optical Media - Blu Ray, M-Disc, And More (Jan 2024)

My guide to using optical media for digital archiving applications in January 2024. In this video I cover different forms of optical storage including Blu Ray, M-Disc and archival CD and DVD products. We also look at the difference between backup and archive and what type of digital preservation projects optical media is best suited to.

Optical Media For Data Archiving - My Complete Guide (Jan 2024)

I thought it would be a good idea to try to consolidate everything that I've shared over the past couple of weeks about optical media into one video intended to share as much as I know about using optical media for data archiving at this point in time (Jan 2024 - more specifically the date I'm uploading this video).
In this video I cover reasons to use archival, different products across all common optical media types (CD, DVDs, Blu Rays, M-Discs). And some specific products that I'm using and can recommend.

== Timestamps ==

Intro - 00:00
Why use optical media in 2024? - 02:05
Why optical is good for archival - 07:00
Optical vs HDD, SSD & LTO data rot - 11:00
Optical for offsite archival and backup - 14:00
Why WORM can be advantageous - 15:00
Archival grade CDs and DVDs by Verbatim - 18:00
Engineering of archival CDs and DVDs - 19:00
Why use CDs and DVDs - 20:00
Canadian Conservation Institute - 22:30
HTL vs LTH Blu Ray 23:00
Blu Ray LTH 23:30
MABL - 24:30
Verbatim "key technologies" - 25:00
The M-Disc "controversy" - 27:00
128GB Sony BDXL - 28:30
Amazon Japan - 29:30
Why I'm not worried about deprecation - 32:00
Regular Verbatim HTL discs - 35:00
Sony BD-R media - 37:00
Panasonic and JVC BD-R media - 38:00
Conclusions - 39:00