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OmegaNemesis28 · 08-08-08

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Originally Posted by jinja_ninja

Good idea - but I can see this disc getting damaged/raped/pillaged/mutilated in various ways.

HDD all the way!

Blu-Ray discs are "unscratchable". Im sure just like any DVD or CD, they can be damaged easily - but you obviously don't see the point in this.

If you actually read the thread, you would've seen what I said to another member who said the same thing about the Hard Drive. Please read the threads BEFORE posting. Its only 3 pages. -.-

jinja_ninja · 08-08-08

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Originally Posted by OmegaNemesis28

Blu-Ray discs are "unscratchable". Im sure just like any DVD or CD, they can be damaged easily - but you obviously don't see the point in this.

If you actually read the thread, you would've seen what I said to another member who said the same thing about the Hard Drive. Please read the threads BEFORE posting. Its only 3 pages. -.-

I am sorry for not taking this thread too seriously for you.

KSIMP88 · 08-08-08

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Originally Posted by VulcanDragon

A "couple of bucks"? It will be many years before that's the case! Cheap 25GB BD-R discs are still $10, or 40 cents/GB. At that cost per GB, a 500 GB disc would cost $200! And we all know that big storage is more expensive than little storage when first introduced, so the real price would likely be much, much higher.

If we include the premium, we could be talking an easy $400.... Not worth the risk of a flimsy disk.... HDD's are best for the important stuff.
Now, I want to see a small USB 3.0 stick with a 500GB capacity. That might be worth $500...

OmegaNemesis28 · 08-08-08

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Originally Posted by jinja_ninja

I am sorry for not taking this thread too seriously for you.

Its not that, its just people who don't read the thread make such comments that were already made. Its so common now - its annoying more then anything.

*VulcanDragon* · 08-08-08

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Originally Posted by Guruboy

Thank you. We all understand that. The poster you quoted was exercising something called foresight.

Nothing in the post to indicate that, it was written in the present tense. Apologies for responding to what the poster actually wrote instead of what you chose to read into it.

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Originally Posted by Jewels

It's about time these large capacity disks started becoming a reality. With ever increasing large hard drives, backing up is becoming a serious hassle with such tiny discs, and blu-ray is still taking its time becoming the norm. When you have 500GB hard drives at near full capacity, do you really expect someone to back up using regular DVDs? Even 50GB dual layer blu-ray discs are barely acceptable for backup purposes.

I think many people have abandoned optical discs as a strong medium for system backups long ago. External hard drives are more affordable per GB, easily portable, and more up to the challenge. Personally, I only use discs for file backups (e.g. My Documents, but nothing more).

I would be curious to know how many readers actually do use discs for their system backups...I don't even see how it could be done effectively with modern HD sizes.

ElMikeTheMike · 08-08-08

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Originally Posted by VulcanDragon

I think many people have abandoned optical discs as a strong medium for system backups long ago. External hard drives are more affordable per GB, easily portable, and more up to the challenge. Personally, I only use discs for file backups (e.g. My Documents, but nothing more).

I would be curious to know how many readers actually do use discs for their system backups...I don't even see how it could be done effectively with modern HD sizes.

I'm sure most people use HDD's to back up their data, but I bet most would prefer to use discs since the likelihood of an actual disc going bad are slim to nil - they certainly have a longer shelf life. As long as you have a drive to read it, you'll always have the data, whereas a HDD is only going to last so long.

That said, I'd much rather backup my stuff on discs, but it hasn't always been a viable option since even dual layered DVDs don't offer nearly enough storage capacity and I don't have the patience to burn tons of DVDs, which is what makes HDD's preferable at the present time (that and cost of course).

A single 500GB BR disc > 500GB HDD for backup. And yes I know, costwise is isn't feasible, blah blah blah. Prices are only going to go down on the hardware and discs themselves, but you get my point.

Hewlett-Packard · 08-08-08

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Originally Posted by Fearless

I prefer a 500G HDD anyday of the week over a 500G disc.

I prefer the HDD Monday thru Friday, I'll take the optical 500GB on weekends, I don't mind.

NessTheHero · 08-08-08

I did read the thread, and I don't see the point for any practical use of this. Maybe large companies could use this instead of tape backups (which I doubt, because there are tapes that can store a few TBs on them at the company I work with right now) to save physical room in their inventory, but to joe consumer this is a pile of rubbish. It'd take an unreasonable amount of time to read and write data to the disc. At that amount of storage, it's more practical and cost effective to have a hard disk drive.

antd · 08-08-08

These discs are cool. I'd prefer to carry around 50 of these discs, when they become cheap, in a CD wallet. Rather than carrying multiple HDDs around in a bag.

*VulcanDragon* · 08-08-08

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Originally Posted by ElMikeTheMike

I'm sure most people use HDD's to back up their data, but I bet most would prefer to use discs since the likelihood of an actual disc going bad are slim to nil - they certainly have a longer shelf life. As long as you have a drive to read it, you'll always have the data, whereas a HDD is only going to last so long.

If you buy good quality discs you're probably right. But a decade ago when I had less money, I would skimp and buy the "value" CD-Rs; many of which seem to have failed on me already. No idea why. So take that as a lesson boys and girls, spend the extra dollar or two for the spindle of "good" discs, don't buy the cheapies!

Also, in what I suppose is about 15 years of buying/building "higher end" PCs, I've only had two hard drives fail on me. Failure rate is low enough for my comfort level, since the odds of both my real HD and my backup HD both failing at the same time are absurdly low. But not everyone would share my risk tolerance, I fully recognize.

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A single 500GB BR disc > 500GB HDD for backup. And yes I know, costwise is isn't feasible, blah blah blah. Prices are only going to go down on the hardware and discs themselves, but you get my point.

Trouble is that, by the time the 500GB discs are cost effective, we'll all have multi-TB hard drives that need backed up...so we're right back to disc swapping!

But yes, I do get your point.

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