G'day

I recently splurged out on a Blu-Ray Drive for my computer.

I have read that Blu-Ray discs are notoriously unreliable and can even lose their data.
Being an optimist I was hoping there is still a blank Blu-Ray BD-R that the guys here in the forum can recommend for me?

Thanks in advance.

I swear by the TDK brand across the board: CD-Rs, DVD-Rs and BD-Rs. The BD-Rs are pricey, though, at least here in America. This is the packaging I get, there are several trustworthy Japanese dealers at this listing page:



http://www.amazon.com/dp/B003M6AGSA/?tag=imwan-20

These are single layer BD-Rs with a 25 GB capacity. There are also 50 GB dual layer discs, but they tend to cost more than twice as much and have a higher incidence of burn errors.

I just checked the MYCE board for you (formally Club CD Freaks). There is very little there. Here's an excerpt from the only post I could find from someone I consider knowledgeable:

"Opinions and misinformation aside, Blu-ray materials and manufacturing have progressed to where you can expect a reasonable lifespan from them. Panasonic and Falcon have released accelerated aging tests of their media rating them at 50+ years. While this may be overly optimistic, those same tests have been a good indicator of comparative CD and DVD longevity among brands over the years. "

Someone else I am not familiar with posted this,

"BTW the brands I've heard that are good are:
verbatim taiyo yuden (if you can find who sells their blu ray stuff)
I've also heard about good scans with TDK (imation?) brand BD-R. Also scans have not been as accurate a deciding factor in logevity tests compared with cd-r & dvdr's... we just don't have enough data & time to prove that scans correlate to logevity yet and that's one reason why blu-ray manufacturers have shunned adding the feature. If you want to warehouse data, I suggest backing data up on multiple (cheap) hard drives which you swap out at regular intervals and buy every 2-3 years. Also, I've been heard that the drives should be utilized once every several months so the bearing dont' cease up. Run a sector scan to prevent low power saving drive timeout."

My opinion:
If Taiyo & Falcon are making BR's, that's probably the way to go. Right now, Falcon makes the best dvdr's & TY makes the best cdr's. Both of them have declined in quality in the last year or 2.

Thank you !

Much appreciated