Can anyone confirm (from experience) that this will (or will not) burn the new 25-gb M-DISK format?
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M-Disks are only available in DVD format now, 4.7GB. According the manufacturer facebook page, the new BluRay version, 25GB, should be out just after the new year. Their web site says the new BluRay M-Disk will be burnable in any BluRay burner. I'm watching their fb page for more news.
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Sorry, don't have the experience part, however.... Directly from the developer of M-Disc, "The M-DISC Blu-ray offers five times the storage capacity of the standard 4.7GB M-DISC DVD, and is writable and readable on any Blu-ray drive - a step for Millenniata and the convenience of this permanent storage technology." Read- ANY BLU-RAY DRIVE! Should work fine.
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Sorry, didn't complete my response. My LG Blue-Ray Disk is labled M@Disk Bd Rewriter. It should burn the M disk.
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I use this model mainly for DVDs. It is quiet and fast. I have burned 25Gb blu-ray discs but not of the M-disc type. LGs says it supports M-disc.
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It should work. What do you mean not recognized? Can you not see the drive in Disk Utilities in order to format the drive?
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Not really, I've copied everything from 4GB to 64GB. The original size and the copy size should be the same. Ex: 32GB to 32GB or 4GB to 4GB Great machine, works very well.
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My m230 has been fine for over a year now and my husband froze once and he went to their web site San Disk go under troubleshoting and follow the reformating instructions and now it has been working ever since... I can't complain about my m230. So far so good!!!!
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Hey Mark, well the funny thing is that I sent this thing back. It just wouldn't format. No matter what I did, or cable I used it didn't work. It also had problems with using the firewire cable. I think I got it to recognize the HD ONCE, and then it said it would take almost 17 hours to format it. I honestly think something was wrong with the drive itself, but I didn't want another one to try. I figured I'd wait.
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Can't speak to your exact model of mac-mini or OS version, but I burned a 50Gb blu-ray data disk from a 2.6 i7 mini running mountain lion without any special installation.
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I did rip a cd and that's what is not taking. It is a HSM 1 & 2 that was burned from the original. ??? Thanks for your insight, I'll keep trying different cds.
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Every time in the past when new HDD sizes come out there was a firmware update to allow them to work. So of course there is no guarantee but it "should" be fine.
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I just connected a 500GB (WD500AADS, ASIN: B002P3KO4C search it on Amazon) drive using a sata to USB connector (ASIN: B000J01I1G search it on Amazon). I had to use the tuner to format (fat32), and it shows up as a 465GB drive. I hit the PVR button, and recorded a sample, no problem. I imagine the pre-packaged drives would work the same.
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The one I have is for 3.5", Data capacity is 720KB, 1.25MB, 1.44MB (Formatted). Have not found a drive for the 5.25" disk yet myself.
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Hi, sorry to hear about that. I used mine just to copy a HDD once and it worked fine, I haven't used after that.
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Hello. I have tried USB 32 GB as maximum till mow, and it is working fine. No idea either bigger is ok or not.
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ive been burning with amazon's basic dvd+r stuff for a while and after a few hundred disks, very few fails.i think my drive is burning up now, is the only problem, but its old and has about 1k burns through it.
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I have the 256 model, same drive. I use it as a bootable backup drive. It works. It's a little sluggish compared to a firewire connection.
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I just finished installing this 1TB and it worked like a charm... 828GB free out of 931GB. I'll update this if any thing changes...
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Has anyone actually successfully converted one of the 5.25 bays to 3.5 for a hard drive? I have 9 hard drives and want to see if this would actually fit them all. Thanks
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I've never burned a multilayered disk on mine, but it claims to be able to do quad density blurey for up to 100 gbs of data