 Hi guys, welcome back to my YouTube channel Daniel Rosal here again as per the usual someone just asked me on Twitter Where can I buy M discs? So I believe the M disc revolution or the renaissance will get under foot at some point hence why I'm putting These videos up on YouTube. I'm putting them into an M disc playlist and I've had recent exchanges with my friend WC Preston host of host of the Back is up podcast Restored all podcast. I'm sorry. The world's only backup podcast Curtis to my surprise is a fan of optical media over LTO for home users and is apparently doing an episode on it soon So if you follow the restored all podcast look out for that But as to where to buy M disc so I've covered M disc in my previous videos You probably know what they are if you've clicked into this their special archival grade Storage media intended for preserving data long long term in cold offline storage without degradation Very very cool tech in my opinion But certainly kind of a niche product now with the clouds Being such a big thing, but it's definitely still got a huge place in my opinion Especially given the massively high cost to entry of LTO tape So anyway to get to the basic question of where do you buy these things today? So, yeah, they're definitely on the market But then he actually went out of business the company that made these and I spoke to the guy last week for an interview But verbatim which is certainly not out of business do make these things so I bought mine on Amazon.com and I will show you guys The various M discs one can purchase if I go for M Discs you can see you also need as I mentioned an M disc drive But these are the ones that I bought these M disc BDR 25 gigs four times they have a branded surface you can get them in printable Variety to there's not that much of a price difference and you can get them They have also the series of 1000 years archival storage I think the regular ones are supposed to last a hundred So they have like pricier ones that are maybe like even I don't know what the difference is exactly right But you can see they've got kind of a slightly different product line for this 1000 So for me the 100 years are more than good enough and the ones I actually bought from Amazon were in fact I believe yeah these guys so That's basically Amazon. They have three they come in 25 gigs 50 gigs and 100 gigs they come in spindles They come in dual cases But the spindles are cheaper from what I can tell at least just looking eyeballing those prices 18 bucks for five Versus 64 bucks for 25 you can even buy them individually or in a case box, right? So that's Amazon. Where else did I find B&H sell M disc? Which is not surprising because for photo and video these things are very useful for archival So I'm not the only video lunatic. It seems who is buying these unlike wise they sell the spindles For 256 bucks, but they're the 100 gig spindles. So that makes sense and Where else just a couple of obscure websites I found here and there also Walmart So if you're in the US Walmart carry them and basically Amazon that would be my go-to But if it depending where you are in the world search for M disc in your locality and I reckon you'll probably find a Retailer of a Reese reseller of M discs Now I wanted to also do answer one more question while what I was at it And I thought I'd do a little cost comparison to try and investigate whether it's actually cheaper I'm gonna just zoom in so you guys can see What I found so basically I took the main M disc product on Amazon Which is the one that I purchased and I was just curious to know whether you're actually gonna get a cost saving if you buy The 100 gig M discs versus 25. So I've never claimed to be a mathematical genius In fact, I'm pretty bad at mathematics. So I'm gonna show my workings just in case I manage to screw up These are the number of discs capacity per desk 25 50 100 the total storage is these two multiplied together So for a spindle of 25 you get yourself and and this is a pretty low capacity thing as you can see All right, so even if you're buying the 100 gig M discs and 25 of them You're only you're only getting 2.5 terabytes of storage for 256 bucks so relative to hard drives. It's much more expensive but you're getting something that's supposed to be impervious to bit rot and Another advantage versus LTO is you don't have to buy a fancy drive Well, you do have to buy a drive, but they're only about a hundred bucks versus an LTO drive that might set you back $3,000. So then as for the mathematics, these are the prices as of today. I then divided the price by the Total number of gigabytes on the disc. So in my case, let me just see I did this, right? Yeah e2 over c2 So what you can see to my surprise, it's not actually cheaper to get the 100 gig So this is a 10 cent per gigabyte. This is 11 just rounding off these numbers 11 cent per gigabyte And this is 10 It's a tiny tiny fraction cheaper, but really not significant So it doesn't actually seem if you're if you're trying to buy bigger M discs because you think it's going to be cheaper It doesn't seem to me that that's actually the case Instead, it's just maybe more convenient that you can use up You can get more data on each disc. Therefore, you're going to need to Store less discs overall, but it won't actually be cheaper Workout cheaper from a data standpoint quite unusually because from what I understand or what I recall hate HDDs hard drives do Have a sort of diminishing cost as you go up there in storage So this is to answer the question of where to buy M discs in 2022 and a little price working Hope this video was of interest and until the next one. Thanks for watching