Verbatim43811 25GB 6X BD-R SL Datalife Inkjet Printable - 25 Pack Spindle

I have bought 75 of these disc's burned 64 so far.These disc's are ideal for long term storage of data i.e pic's, video's documents etc.Safer than the double layer 50GB or triple layer 100GB disc's for data storage as only the 1 layer to write to. I bought 5 Sony 100GB bd-re disc's last month and 1 has already failed it errors once it tries to write to the 2nd layer on the disc.Pro'sThese are HTL not the cheaper and less reliable LTH disc'sMuch better for storing data long term than hard drive's SSD's or LTH disc's i.e cd,dvd,and cheap LTH blu ray disc'sOut of the 64 disc's burned zero have failed.Con'sSlower to transfer data to than usb keys or hard drivesLimited to 22.5GB usable storage per disc

Ok, so you'll need a blu-ray burner to burn / read these discs. But that said...They are great for data backup storage. External hard drives can fail, whether solid state or disc based. So I like to back up important family movies, memories etc on something else as well, and blu-ray discs are a great option.These ones can store up to 50GB each, so enough for tons and tons of photos (my entire back catalogue in fact, and that's quite a few from years of travelling). They can also hold lots of .mov files, great for family videos etc.Longevity, I'm not sure. Too soon to say. We were told back in the 80s that CDs were indestructible. It turned out they weren't. If these last me 10 or 20 years, with care, I'll be happy, I'll have made new copies by then, assuming I'm still around to do so! I don't much mind if they outlast me, or not. But if anyone needs to archive really important material for future generations, they might prefer to use the highly stable and reliable M-discs instead.

Fantastic discs, make sure your writer is working correctly and you have the latest bios and drivers for it, plenty of people that complain about poor media simply haven't got their set-up right, if you value your data just buy a brand new blu ray writer when you buy the discs, my old drive had hardly been used but was having problems so I bought a new pioneer drive on here with the discs.Use the latest version of Nero, it has something called discspan this lets you drag a massive folder over to the disc and it will automatically split the files on to the discs for you then all you have to do is put a new disc in, on 4 speed this takes approx 35 mins to burn and verify the discs, make sure you switch on verify data as this is important to know that the discs are being written correctly.I have burned 50 of these discs backing up my various digital camera and music files with no coasters.

Brought these to store a large amount of video and picture files. They are designed so that you can print onto the disc, but can still easily be written on as needed. The discs themselves seem to be well made and don't appear to be any more flimsy than other brands I have used in the past. I have stored and transferred data to them with no issues so far. In terms of longevity, then this is only proven by many years of storage, which is somewhat open to interpretation (as they still use an organic material). M-disc, which is more expensive is the only type of disc that professes to last many generations long (theoretically 1000 years), but I have written onto (cheap) CDs approaching 20 years old that still work fine, but they are stored in a metal box away from light and indoors (so no extreme temperatures), so make of that what you will, as to if you trust storage via this medium or not. Otherwise happy with the cost to quantify to storage ratio of these.

Absolute trash. One in every five discs burnt correctly, the rest failed miserably. Burn process takes nearly an hour at 2x for a disc that fails to finalise and can't be read. Verbatim were supposed to be a good brand but these are just rebranded CMC Magnetics (the worst brand on the market). AVOID. I want to get a refund but I've used too many discs for them to consider it. I feel robbed.