For a start, at around $7 per disk, the M-Disc is incredibly expensive for just 4.7GB of storage. Next, to use M-Discs as your primary backup medium, you would need vast amounts of space to store ...

One M-DISC has a traditional DVD disc capacity of 4.7GB of space with comparable performance. Millenniata is currently working on a Blu-Ray version of M-DISC that will be announced at a later date.

M-Disc released 4.7GB DVD discs, which are suitable for archiving documents and perhaps your most treasured photos, last year. For video or other larger files, ...

Currently, the discs can store about the same amount of data as a DVD (4.7GB) but only write at 4x or roughly half the speed of today's DVD players. Plans to ramp up recording speed are underway.

For now, the platters store the same amount of data as a DVD: 4.7GB. However, the discs write at only 4x or 5.28MB/sec, half the speed of today’s DVD players .

Millenniata's discs have the same data capacity as standard DVDs (4.7GB) and they're backward compatible with existing DVD drives, so once data is stored on an M-Disc, you'll be able to access the ...

First published 20 February, 1997. A new magneto-optical specification could cut off DVD-RAM at the pass. Tentatively named AS MO (Advanced Storage Magneto-Optical), the spec is for a 6-7Gb 5.25 ...