M-Disc: What Does The Durability Data Say?

There's a lot of animated discussion on Reddit (especially the data hoarders subreddit) about the durability of M-Discs and whether they really live up to their claim of being incredibly durable - or at least significantly more so than other archival-grade products. My hot take on the matter: the skepticism is unfounded. M-Discs introduced a very innovative technology to the optical market and, if capacity could be scaled, they hold amazing promise as a cold/offline data storage technology that could result in massive energy savings from liberated cloud resources (in other words, M-Discs are a green cause!).
However, for those curious, there's also a wealth of information linked off the M-Disc Wikipedia shedding some light on the testing that the US Department of Defense, and others, have done to try to ascertain their stability.
Mentioned during the video:
The ECMA-379 standard:
www.ecma-inter...
The M-Disc patent documentation which is available for inspection and download from Google Patents:
patentimages.s...
US DoD durability findings:
web.archive.or...
A shorter report from the (French) Laboratoires de Trappes R&D division:
www.lne.fr/sit...
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