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http://www.tomshardware.com/news/Blu-ray,5836.html
Pioneer already did this last year but theirs had 16 25GB layers for a total of 400GB. I still haven't heard any more (price or availability) since then. I might actually consider Blu-ray an option for backup if I could buy discs like these, but I'm not backing up a TB of data onto a whole stack of 25GB discs.
Pioneer already did this last year but theirs had 16 25GB layers for a total of 400GB. I still haven't heard any more (price or availability) since then. I might actually consider Blu-ray an option for backup if I could buy discs like these, but I'm not backing up a TB of data onto a whole stack of 25GB discs.
/www.tomshardware.com/news/Blu-ray,5836.html[citation][nom]billin30[/nom]Thinking out loud, but what would be the application for using Blu-Ray and this type of tech in actual hard-drives? Can that actually be done?[/citation]
Simply put, no. It's an entirely different method of storing data.
This is cool, though. 320GB disk. Wow.
Simply put, no. It's an entirely different method of storing data.
This is cool, though. 320GB disk. Wow.
[citationStill, with the industry leaning towards SSDs and digital downloads, it's a wonder why manufacturers are still trying to cram truck-loads of data onto a disk.
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Well if Comcast shuts off my internet after I download 100GB I'm going to need someway to get my data.
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Well if Comcast shuts off my internet after I download 100GB I'm going to need someway to get my data.
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Hey now. Say you need to MOVE data from an SSD in a main office to an HDD in a remote office. Do you ship it all on a NAS, or burn it and ship a disc. Or what if you need to do a bare metal restore of a failed server from backup. Do you wait all day for it to stream data across a slow WAN link, or have a disc locally? Heck, say you buy a game that takes 20+ GB of space. Do you download the whole thing if you live in an area where high speed internet is either unavailable or extremely expensive (as is still the case in much of the U.S.) or just get a disc from Best Buy?
Next, are you going to ask why anyone would want a TB or larger hard drive when you can just store all your files online? Heck, why get your own quad-core processor when there's cloud computing around? Hey, why not just replace your dedicated PC with a dumb terminal and a citrix session to a mainframe somewhere?
There IS a use for physical media! Anyone who says otherwise has no grip on the real world.
Next, are you going to ask why anyone would want a TB or larger hard drive when you can just store all your files online? Heck, why get your own quad-core processor when there's cloud computing around? Hey, why not just replace your dedicated PC with a dumb terminal and a citrix session to a mainframe somewhere?
There IS a use for physical media! Anyone who says otherwise has no grip on the real world.
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When considerin how big HD are now the 320GB is too small. Holographic disk... I am waiting...
But yeah 320 is guite nice and new 4k resolution and 3D content reguire more space. Digital downloadin can not keep up with the ingreasing size of the media content at this moment, so it would seems to be.
But yeah 320 is guite nice and new 4k resolution and 3D content reguire more space. Digital downloadin can not keep up with the ingreasing size of the media content at this moment, so it would seems to be.
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They could use this sort of disk to market off movie + game + soundtrack combo disks very easily, hollywood should take a peak into these.
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[citation][nom]superblahman123[/nom]They could use this sort of disk to market off movie + game + soundtrack combo disks very easily, hollywood should take a peak into these.[/citation]
they can already do that on current BD, "if" they want to do so.
another question is, i'd like to see a whole HD TV seire on a single disc either per season (usually 15~25 eps) or fitting the whole serie, that would require at least 200+ GB a disc.
once the price comes cheap enough (
they can already do that on current BD, "if" they want to do so.
another question is, i'd like to see a whole HD TV seire on a single disc either per season (usually 15~25 eps) or fitting the whole serie, that would require at least 200+ GB a disc.
once the price comes cheap enough (
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(posting error..)
they can already do that on current BD, "if" they want to do so.
another question is, i'd like to see a whole HD TV seire on a single disc either per season (usually 15~25 eps) or fitting the whole serie, that would require at least 200+ GB a disc.
once the price comes cheap enough (under $15 over 300 GB) i will start doing backup the whole media library sorted by serie and genre, and keep only the medias of "recent interest" in the HDD/NAS. I can also easily make copies of them for family and friends without let them browsing through the whole HDD file directory... 😛
disc reading speed is not as painful as burning after it's done.
it would be a good way to organize things neat (and safer), maybe that's just me.
they can already do that on current BD, "if" they want to do so.
another question is, i'd like to see a whole HD TV seire on a single disc either per season (usually 15~25 eps) or fitting the whole serie, that would require at least 200+ GB a disc.
once the price comes cheap enough (under $15 over 300 GB) i will start doing backup the whole media library sorted by serie and genre, and keep only the medias of "recent interest" in the HDD/NAS. I can also easily make copies of them for family and friends without let them browsing through the whole HDD file directory... 😛
disc reading speed is not as painful as burning after it's done.
it would be a good way to organize things neat (and safer), maybe that's just me.
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[citation][nom]captaincharisma[/nom]you bought a bluray drive for backing up? it would have been cheaper to get an external 1TB drive[/citation]I bought a bluray drive for backing up because my 320GB external HD failed on me after about a year and a half! My bluray disc isn't gonna just, FAIL on me.
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Cool.
Could we put 10 dual sided dics on a enclosure and call it a 6TB BluRay HDD?
The price for reuseable BluRays is already too much. I'd rather tote a 64GB flash drive or 250GB 2.5" HDD with me... chances are, both would smoke this in performance and reliability too.
Burnable bluray discs and bluray burners cost way to much. One time use media is useless to me.
Could we put 10 dual sided dics on a enclosure and call it a 6TB BluRay HDD?
The price for reuseable BluRays is already too much. I'd rather tote a 64GB flash drive or 250GB 2.5" HDD with me... chances are, both would smoke this in performance and reliability too.
Burnable bluray discs and bluray burners cost way to much. One time use media is useless to me.
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[citation][nom]ravewulf[/nom]Would have been a whole lot faster to copy data to a hard drive too[/citation]If the hard drive fails, your screwed. Period. That is the reason I am using Bluray. That's all!
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I think people are losing sight of the economics involved... saying BluRay is too expensive for this to ever take off is very short-sighted. I bought a CD burner for backup in 1996 when blank CDs were running about $1.50 a disk and the drive was over $600. I expect this as an early adopter... just like my $600 DVD burner in 2002 with $3.50 per DVD+R. When there are only a few thousand people buying the drives, they may cost a lot of money but as millions or even a billion people buy drives the cost becomes a fraction of what it ran originally.
My last DVD+-R burner cost me $20. That's 30x cheaper than my first one after only 5 years. When 4K or 8K video becomes more prevelant the physical storage will accomodate that as needed. Try downloading a patch for your favorite game in a few years when it's 200gb in size... last time I checked with *MY* cable speed that would take days - or at least MUCH longer than a trip to the local Best Buy to get physical media.
My last DVD+-R burner cost me $20. That's 30x cheaper than my first one after only 5 years. When 4K or 8K video becomes more prevelant the physical storage will accomodate that as needed. Try downloading a patch for your favorite game in a few years when it's 200gb in size... last time I checked with *MY* cable speed that would take days - or at least MUCH longer than a trip to the local Best Buy to get physical media.
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