macOS Blu-Ray support for data disks?

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macOS Blu-Ray support for data disks?

Hi,

I use BD-R and BD-RE disk for data storage.

Does macOS Sierra or High Sierra support burning R disks (burn once) or -RE disk (rewritable burn-many) or -RE (dynamic writing like a hard drive)?

NOTE: I am not authoring, burning or watching Blu-Ray video disks - anything in regard to Blu-Ray video is irrelevant to this post. This question is about macOS native ability to use Blu-Ray disk for data storage; writable, rewritable and dynamic writing.

null-OTHER, macOS High Sierra (10.13.3), null

Posted on Mar 5, 2018 3:29 PM

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Answer 1

rkaufmann87

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Mar 5, 2018 4:05 PM in response to James Saldana

Mac OS has never natively supported Blue Ray. Also using any DVD for a backup is a VERY VERY flawed strategy. It is flawed due to insufficient capacity and shelf life of the media. A much more reasonable backup strategy is using external HD(s) and creating either a bootable clone (SuperDuper! or Carbon Copy Cloner apps) or using Time Machine per How to use Time Machine to back up or restore your Mac - Apple Support. A wise backup strategy would be using a minimum of 2 backup EHD's, price should not be an objection as EHDs are very reasonable. My (and many other experience users on these forums) preference is OWC Mercury Elite Pro: Production-Grade External Hard Drive

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Answer 2

Mar 5, 2018 4:34 PM in response to rkaufmann87

I appreciate your post but Blu-Ray is a reliable archive format, a format that includes M-Disc (Bly-Ray). Blu-Ray and M-Disc (Blu-Ray) are used by governments and military agencies for archiving.

I already use Time Machine, along with a redundant RAID drive and hot swappable offline copies. But in the end, hard drives have a much shorter life span than optical disks, especially when used for long term archiving.

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Answer 3

Mar 5, 2018 4:32 PM in response to James Saldana

The Finder Burn feature will work with BD-R and BD-RE discs (in UDF 2.01) in one closed-disc session. Dynamic writing requires formatting by third party software capable of doing such.

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Answer 4

Mar 5, 2018 4:33 PM in response to Urquhart1244

Thanks, that's exactly what I was looking for. I knew macOS supported UDF but I was not sure about dynamic writing.

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