Review on 🔮 Enhanced Optical Drive: OWC Mercury Pro 16X Blu-ray, 16X DVD, 48X CD Read/Write Solution by Shawn Bass

I have successfully burned a dozen BDR M discs with this drive and all have passed 100% integrity checks. Everything went perfectly. I used K3B on Manjaro Linux (KDE) for software. The USB case works perfectly plug-and-play, and the built-in drive had a 100 percent success rate fully engraving a dozen write-once M-Discs. (I even created ECC files for ISOs with dvdisaster version 0.79.9). I might update this post to see how well it works with BDXL (100GB) M discs. For those of us archiving irreplaceable memories for future generations, I recommend leaving detailed notes on the cover or sleeve of your engraved M-Disc so anyone who comes across it will have full instructions on how to read the data while using it nor understands the technology and history behind it. Maybe make a time capsule and add a USB cable, a USB Type-A to Type-C adapter, a Blu-ray burner/drive and power cord (like this one) and everything else which someone might use in the distant future. Keep in mind that technology is evolving rapidly. There will come a time when it is likely that USB (in whatever form) will no longer exist; Blu-ray players are no longer manufactured and are rarely found in working condition; the x86 CPU architecture is no longer used in any computer system; etc. Don't you think so? How easy is it to find a working Hi8 player without sacrificing too much money? How easy will it be to find working VHS players in 10 or 20 years? How easy is it to extract sound from audio tapes? All of these things were readily available to generations of people alive today in their infancy. It's not far from our human past! So think about what will happen in 50, 100, 200 years? Can someone read what you have engraved on your M disk? Will they have the software and hardware to do this? Just because the drive is still in pristine condition and the data is in a perfect state of bits and bytes, there is no guarantee that anyone will be able to recover the data on it. Make it as easy as possible for future generations, whatever the cost. Much luck. The disc and case itself feel solid and well built. The chassis is metal with a brushed aluminum feel and has four plastic tabs on the bottom to reduce vibration during use. Of all the options on the market, this one is probably the best.