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Title: Blu ray for storage
Post by: happylacquer on Tue, 14 February 2017, 03:47:05
I have been waiting for blu ray writers to get to a reasonable price for a while. After forgetting about them almost entirely, I checked amazon, 49 on prime and 15 bucks for 50 discs giving me abit over a TB of backup. Cool.

How is blu ray for long term storage? I have  a lot of stuff that is just on tons of HD, SSD and usb drives for fear of losing any of it. I have a lot of old dvd-r of backup stuff, those are all still fine after about 10 years...
Title: Re: Blu ray for storage
Post by: tp4tissue on Tue, 14 February 2017, 04:54:34
archival grade discs are not cheaper than buying equivalent Gigabytes on Harddrive.

So,  Just buy harddrives and rewrite all data every 3 to 5 years.
Title: Re: Blu ray for storage
Post by: pr0ximity on Tue, 14 February 2017, 05:41:49
What tp4 said, blu-ray aren't any more reliable than HDDs. If you want serious archival quality you'll need a tape drive.
Title: Re: Blu ray for storage
Post by: happylacquer on Tue, 14 February 2017, 22:08:25
Quote from: pr0ximity on Tue, 14 February 2017, 05:41:49
What tp4 said, blu-ray aren't any more reliable than HDDs. If you want serious archival quality you'll need a tape drive.

I would actually do this if tape wasn't ridiculously expensive.
Title: Re: Blu ray for storage
Post by: captsis on Tue, 14 February 2017, 22:15:57
hdd is cheaper. also suggest Punched tape.
Title: Re: Blu ray for storage
Post by: happylacquer on Tue, 14 February 2017, 22:18:54
Quote from: matt2dlg on Tue, 14 February 2017, 22:15:57
hdd is cheaper. also suggest Punched tape.

im down if you can find me a mp3 player that can read it
Title: Re: Blu ray for storage
Post by: tp4tissue on Wed, 15 February 2017, 13:46:41
Quote from: happylacquer on Tue, 14 February 2017, 22:18:54
Quote from: matt2dlg on Tue, 14 February 2017, 22:15:57
hdd is cheaper. also suggest Punched tape.

im down if you can find me a mp3 player that can read it

that's alotta tape to carry,  probably midi though.
Title: Re: Blu ray for storage
Post by: noisyturtle on Wed, 15 February 2017, 15:48:15
Discs made of stone - the only real option
http://www.mdisc.com/ (http://www.mdisc.com/)
Title: Re: Blu ray for storage
Post by: tp4tissue on Wed, 15 February 2017, 16:02:57
Quote from: noisyturtle on Wed, 15 February 2017, 15:48:15
Discs made of stone - the only real option
http://www.mdisc.com/ (http://www.mdisc.com/)

I don't think carbon film is stone.. buhhhhhhh..........

technically anything hard could be stone like ? hahahaha..


Also,  This is 1000 years rated UNDER certain conditions..  and idk if they provide integrity check to their discs,  so Technically a flipped bit here and there means you ARE sort of losing your data..


So it's still seems like a bull **** service praying on non-tech literate people.