Blu-ray writer

Sorry for the off topic but what exactly are you going to do with a blue ray writer in 2012? 5 years ago you could have use it for data and movies but today . . . Keep in mind, 25GB (or 50 if you really have money to waste) is all you get! You'll be much better off (and cheaper) to use 3.5in hd's.
 
intel8080 said:
Sorry for the off topic but what exactly are you going to do with a blue ray writer in 2012? 5 years ago you could have use it for data and movies but today . . . Keep in mind, 25GB (or 50 if you really have money to waste) is all you get! You'll be much better off (and cheaper) to use 3.5in hd's.
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Offsite backups.
 
intel8080 said:
On blueray discs? Good luck then. I hope someone will have a satisfactory answer for your quest.
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What's wrong with that? 25 GB is more than enough for us and it's only R10 a disc. We backup our source code and documents, not movies and junk. Also we don't reuse backups (e.g. hard drives), if a set fails we have the previous one to fall back on.
 
intel8080 said:
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Ha ha that is a cool answer :D
I too think either a old dvd writer or a small and cheap 1TB drive will do. But is his money. He can waste it anyway he wants. He should ask himself why so few people use his method for back ups if it is so cost effective?
 
Hoekachaka said:
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Ha ha that is a cool answer :D
I too think either a old dvd writer or a small and cheap 1TB drive will do. But is his money. He can waste it anyway he wants. He should ask himself why so few people use his method for back ups if it is so cost effective?
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Did you read my post?

I need the capacity of Blu-ray, not DVD, not 1 TB. The media is cheap. We don't reuse backups.

How much is that 1 TB drive? The discs are R10. And we make two sets at a time.
 
Maybe you should investigate it. Read about incremental backup strategy. Usually daily incremental, plus weekly full backup. Incremental backup should be small enough to fit on DVD media.
 
I did answer in short because I did not want to derail the thread. Did not mean to be funny or anything. However probably is better to explain a bit more. The OP must understand one thing: BD (and dvd's) are not ment for back up. Their original design was for movies. Now here is the first issue. Fault tolerance! No one minds if a few bytes are wrong while playing a movie however that may be detrimental when storing a computer program. Secondly, plastic discs are going to burn in a fire and the chemicals used in their manufacturing is not guaranteed for any lengt of time. The OP mentions 10 Rand a disc - that is the cheapest quality one can buy! You don't want that in archiving! Not even for movies if you ask me. Clearly the OP does not really care about the data. A HD is much more advantageous. Even if it is crashed, burned and demagnetised, the data can be recovered (it will cost more depending on the state thereof). If you think 10Rand for 25GB is cheap you are wrong! Further more, the data is not easily accessible. One needs a bulky and fairly expensive drive. Not so with a Hd. 1TB of data is a lot of programming code and stats! You need 40 BD's just there. Add another 1000 rand for the cheapest writer and see what you have.
After a rat chipped away at 7 out of over 140 old family dvd movies, I have decided to go Hd for all my archiving (personal and work). If the data is important I use 2 drives just in case. I hope this helps.
 
Listen peeps I am backup paranoid. The bluray at two offsite locations are in addition to each users local copies, two separate hard drives on site, one hard drive off site and a flash drive offsite.

Now can we talk about where I can get the damn thing!

Btw this is a small office of three people.
 
sajunky said:
Maybe you should investigate it. Read about incremental backup strategy. Usually daily incremental, plus weekly full backup. Incremental backup should be small enough to fit on DVD media.
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Incremental backups is a big no no. Always make full backups.
 
If you have to have one of similar specs asap check out the
Buffalo MediaStation 12x External USB 3.0 Blu-ray Writer - BR3D-12U3
 
Hi,

I know that you are fairly "dead set" on the idea of backing up to BD - which is fine :cool: .

Have you considered any cloud storage options i.e. Dropbox, Skydrive etc. ??
 
SinghS23 said:
Hi,

I know that you are fairly "dead set" on the idea of backing up to BD - which is fine :cool: .

Have you considered any cloud storage options i.e. Dropbox, Skydrive etc. ??
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Thought about it but no. Speed and security concerns.
 
Well you guys made me doubt my decision, so I went I did some reading ... the conclusion is blu-ray is more reliable than tape or hard drives and have a much longer storage life as long as you use quality media. Also don't compare DVD with blu-ray.

Btw, the Verbatims are R20 a disk not R10 as stated before.
 
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