Hi
Are blu-ray burners worth getting?
Considering the BDR is still quite expensive.
I think they have to reach the price point of 20 to 30 cents per disk to be of value.
This is taking too freaking long, considering the DVD-R have been so cheap much faster.
And nowadays we need to archive lots of bigger files.
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Right now per gb, it is still better value for money to get a 2TB/3TB disk.
You wait until the new tech comes up then :)
Yes it's sort of worth it. There are 125GB Discs for like $60 each. It might be incredibly expensive but the only other option is 27 DVD's.
I suppose you could get a hard drive for the money. But it's not really the same thing at all.
Not being rude or anything, really just asking, but what do you intend to use it for? There are so many options for data storage, blu-ray would be absolute last on my list.
I don't use it but if I were it would be for more permanent archival purposes. And if a solar storm sends us back to the dark ages for a bit, the data on your blu-ray will be fine unlike the hard drives.
For 2-10 years I agree.
For real archival, believe it or not, tape is still the go. 10-30 years. More than any other media apparently.
I did see some new tech a few years ago which etched the data hologram like on to a cube, which had a minimum 100 year life span, but have seen nothing since.
I think for the here and now, a RAID 5 NAS, with cloud backup for the most vital of the data is the only real answer I think.
Apart from those 100 year disks you can buy (which I'm a bit dubious about as we can't exactly test it till another 98 odd years from now) - is there anything better?
If you have a laptop Blu-ray burner would be hell a lot easier to back up the recovery disk. I just got a new laptop and they expect you to have 6 dvds ready.