Tempted to go BD-R

I keep asking myself the same thing once every year, but every time it just turns out cheaper to buy a hard drive, copy whatever I need and store it somewhere.
 
So optical media is dead? I have no optical drives in my current PCs, only a removable DVD-RW drive that I rarely use.
 
I haven't used an optical drive in years...

I install Windows 7/8 from a Flash Disk.
 
Still if you look at the maths :

4000GB @ R2000 = 50c per GB if you buy a 4TH HDD
2500GB @ R700 = 28c per GB if you buy a 100 spindle 25GB BD-R discs
 
Rouxenator said:
Still if you look at the maths :

4000GB @ R2000 = 50c per GB if you buy a 4TH HDD
2500GB @ R700 = 28c per GB if you buy a 100 spindle 25GB BD-R discs
Click to expand...

But you have to getup and change the discs and you can't plex or xbmc.
 
Rouxenator said:
Still if you look at the maths :

4000GB @ R2000 = 50c per GB if you buy a 4TH HDD
2500GB @ R700 = 28c per GB if you buy a 100 spindle 25GB BD-R discs
Click to expand...

I suppose for archiving it might be worth it. Whats the shelf life of blu-ray discs?
 
Rouxenator said:
Still if you look at the maths :

4000GB @ R2000 = 50c per GB if you buy a 4TH HDD
2500GB @ R700 = 28c per GB if you buy a 100 spindle 25GB BD-R discs
Click to expand...

Don't forget once you've burned to the disk it can't be reused like a HDD
 
I will only be using it to archive old seasons of stuff I watched. Then again I recently cleaned up about 2TB of stuff simply be deleting it.
 
I've got a bd drive I originally intended to use for movies, never used the bd function in the 3 years I've had it
 
I use my protable DVD-RW as much as I use my portable Stiffy drive. Maybe I should just delete more stuff instead of writing it to DVD?
 
Delete or buy another hard drive and keep it all
 
Gnarls said:
But you have to getup and change the discs and you can't plex or xbmc.
Click to expand...

Its also very slow and you don't have everything all in one place.

The biggest issue is that you lose space because not everything fits in to nice 25 gig sections
 
Cost of Bluray Disk Storage:
1st 2.5TB: R1700 spent. (You're paying 68c/GB)
2nd 2.5TB: R2400 spent. (You're paying 48c/GB)
3rd 2.5TB: R3100 spent. (You're paying 41c/GB)
..
10th 2.5TB: R8000 spent. (You're paying 32c/GB)

Cost of Hard Disk Storage:
3TB: R1330. (You're paying 44c/GB)



Conclusion:
if you want to store 3TB a hard drive is better. (44c/GB vs. 68c/GB)
at 6TB the price is exactly the same...about 44c/GB.
only at 7.5 TB does writing blurays save you money, but even then you're still only saving 3c/GB. (41c/GB for Blurays, 44c/GB for HDD)

at that point, you gotta ask yourself..
a) Do I have the time to burn >7.5 TB to discs?
b) Will I ever have failed discs? (Every failed disc will negate your 3c/GB saving, or even become more expensive then HDD if you mess up too many discs)
c) Do I prefer swapping discs over clicking a directory?
d) Am I okay with the fact that you won't be able to delete the content and replace with other content down the line, like with a hard drive?


IMHO you're better off with HDDs...
 
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I have two machines, both identical with a 256GB SSD and 4TB HDD. The one is our media centre PC and I am perfectly happy with it as it is. The other is my desktop machine and I managed to free up 2TB on it, the long term plan is to go all our SSD on it once 2~3TB SSD become affordable.

So I guess BD-R is a step backwards then in terms of my long term plan
 
Why don't you just put 8tb in the desktop leave an SSD in the media PC and network the two together, I've got all my videos on my main desktop and laid cables around the house, my media PC has an old 360 gig hard drive and I stream my videos from the main computer to the media computer when I want to watch anything
 
I had something like that a while back but then if you reboot the router it affect playback on the media pc. Add to that I only have 2 sata ports in each PC.
 
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