i don't remember the last time i used a disc. some of my clients would ask for recordings of things to be burned on discs in the past, but most of them strongly prefer an SD card or a copy on their flash drives
for what it's worth, neither my desktop or macbook have disk drives. the disk drive in my desktop was just taking up a sata power and data lane, and restricted airflow. that's how little i used discs
[editline]14th December 2014[/editline]
[QUOTE=GiGaBiTe;46707157]Optical discs aren't a good format for archiving anything.
Many manufacturers of writable optical media use junk adhesive compound that can cause the disc to de-laminate and make it useless. The optical ink in the writable media also diffuses over time and you lose the contents. Then there's something called "bronzing" where the reflective layer starts oxidizing and again makes the disc useless.
I used to think optical backup was a good idea until years ago I brought my 1-3 year old optical backups out of storage only to find them in various stages of decay and most of them were pretty much unreadable.
Long term archiving (ie. write once and read back months/years later) is solely tape backup territory.[/QUOTE]
tape archiving, or seagate's upcoming 'shingle' HDD technology that has the same limitations without the downsides that come with a tape format
[QUOTE=Theuaredead;46669947]Pretty sure the Wii U uses them too[/QUOTE]
Wii U uses a proprietary format that's "similar", but not the same. The largest discs are at 25GB.
I can't find any information on the wavelength of the laser.
[QUOTE=.Lain;46707374]i don't remember the last time i used a disc. some of my clients would ask for recordings of things to be burned on discs in the past, but most of them strongly prefer an SD card or a copy on their flash drives[/QUOTE]
I still regularly use 3.5" floppies.
[QUOTE=pentium;46660851]Blu-ray is still expensive relative to DVD. Even Blu-ray burners are still extremely expensive.[/QUOTE]
No they're not.
You can get BD-R disks for less than 10 cents per disk when you buy in bulk online. A burner can be as cheap as $50.
[QUOTE=B!N4RY;46728244]No they're not.
You can get BD-R disks for less than 10 cents per disk when you buy in bulk online. A burner can be as cheap as $50.[/QUOTE]
Obviously that applies to the entirety of the world. Say for instance in Denmark that shit is still pretty fucking expensive compared to DVDs.
However, personally I don't give a shit since I just use USBs anyway.
[QUOTE=mastersrp;46729547]Obviously that applies to the entirety of the world. Say for instance in Denmark that shit is still pretty fucking expensive compared to DVDs.
However, personally I don't give a shit since I just use USBs anyway.[/QUOTE]
BD-Rs are a lot more cost efficient for large amount of backups/archival data than USB drives. Even if it does cost more locally for you, the long term price will always be much cheaper.
[QUOTE=B!N4RY;46732592]BD-Rs are a lot more cost efficient for large amount of backups/archival data than USB drives. Even if it does cost more locally for you, the long term price will always be much cheaper.[/QUOTE]
I was comparing it to DVD. The USB thing is merely because I do a lot of read/write with my USBs for things like OS testing, recovery, and network installer bootstrapping.
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[editline]10th December 2014[/editline]
I've started trying to rip and transcode my Bluray movies now because the software I picked up to try and play them normally, last I checked, still doesn't support the BD menus.[/QUOTE]
PowerDVD supports menus, however it doesn't support mouse - so you have to use your keyboard/remote, whatever.
[QUOTE=Ardosos;46702145]Hot frak. Where in the US can you even get speeds that high?[/QUOTE]
I live in central PA. I am paying for mid-tier service and so its not even the best you can get.
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