Blu-Ray discs were introduced around the beginning of 2000 and were popularized by the Sony PlayStation 3 console, which comes with much more storage capacity than DVD discs.
Not only that, but this Blu-Ray disc is also seen to be able to store digital data for a long period of time, almost two decades without facing data loss issues such as bit rot. The Japanese government, through the Electronic Books Preservation Act has introduced a mandate where the country's tax data must be stored digitally for at least one hundred years.
Recently, Pioneer, one of the pioneers of disk storage manufacturers, has introduced a combination of disks and Blu-Ray recorders that allow digital data to be recorded and stored for 100 years without experiencing data degradation problems.
The Pioneer BDR-WX01DM Blu-Ray Recorder comes with the JIS X6257 data recording standard set by the Japan Document Information Management Association (JIIMA) which allows it to record data to discs that can last for a century. All recorders and discs that can record using this data standard will also come with the DM for Archive label to confirm this 100-year durability.
This recorder can not only record data to Blu-Ray discs, DVDs and even CDs, but also to M-Disc storage which has a layered carbon surface to store data that can last for 1000 years.
Along with the BDR-WX01DM recorder is the Pioneer IPS-BD11J03P DM Blu-Ray disc with 25GB of storage that promises a hundred years of data storage when data is recorded on it using the JIS X6257 standard. Pioneer also says that this Blu-Ray disc supports all existing Blu-Ray readers without issue.
The Pioneer BDR-WX01DM Blu-Ray recorder comes with a price tag of 59,800 yen, while the Pioneer IPS-BD11J03P DM disc is sold at a price of 2340 yen for three Blu-Ray discs in the Japanese market at the moment.