Blu ray...?
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tonizito
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PostPosted: Sun, 22nd Jan 2012 13:23    Post subject: Blu ray...?
So I still use disks for lots of stuff, movies, games (and steam backups), a couple of series too and even some pr0n (you know... can't have some of that unforgivable pr0n lying around on your HDD, right?).

So I saw one of these
http://www.lg.com/us/computer-products/optical-media/LG-internal-dvd-burner-BH10LS30.jsp
selling for ~60€ earlier this week and I've been thinking of buying one ever since.

The discs are still a bit expensive, but a couple of disks would hold enough stuff so that I could take out one of my HDD's and use it on an older PC that's desperately needing a SATA disk.

So... what do you guys think?


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Mchart




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PostPosted: Sun, 22nd Jan 2012 13:43    Post subject:
One can get a 1TB drive for like $120 right now. Not a high performance one, but it'll still record/playback data faster then a BD-R.

The BD-R drive costs $100, and 15 25GB BD-R's cost $25. Thats only 375GB.

Add up the costs and the 1TB HDD is the cheaper route per GB. Not to mention much faster writing/reading data. It takes about 16 minutes to write a 25GB BD-R. 25GB's on an average 1TB will take a lot less.
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MinderMast




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PostPosted: Sun, 22nd Jan 2012 14:08    Post subject:
My preference would be to save up for a bigger HDD for storage as well. Buying discs, writing to them, keeping them somewhere (and then finding and getting data from them) seems too messy for me
Had enough of that with CDs and DVDs back in the day. Writing 4 times the data at half the speed seems even less appealing.

If it's only for storage and nothing else, I wouldn't bother with Blurays. More space for PC seems like a more useful investment in the long run to me. Getting an external HDD will even give you more portability than the Blurays.
If you plan on actually getting some Blurays in the future anyway (movies or whatever), things change obviously.
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tonizito
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PostPosted: Sun, 22nd Jan 2012 14:24    Post subject:
Well speed is not a problem for me... and I've had and witnessed a few bad experiences with external HDD's.

Besides storing all my eggs in one basket never seemed like a good idea to me.
That and HDD's are fucking expensive right now. Sad


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Mchart




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PostPosted: Sun, 22nd Jan 2012 15:06    Post subject:
tonizito wrote:
Well speed is not a problem for me... and I've had and witnessed a few bad experiences with external HDD's.

Besides storing all my eggs in one basket never seemed like a good idea to me.
That and HDD's are fucking expensive right now. Sad


My prior post shows you that a 1TB HDD is cheaper then 1TB in bluray's.


Of course, if you wanted to be the coolest kid on the block you could just invest in one of those new LTO-5 drives and be a boss by storing 1.5TB on each cassette.


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tonizito
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PostPosted: Sun, 22nd Jan 2012 15:13    Post subject:
Argh... I'll probably wait for the HDD prices to drop a bit, then.


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PostPosted: Sun, 22nd Jan 2012 15:38    Post subject:
I wouldnt invest in bluray at all. i feel like its a standard that will fade away and be replaced by something else


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Mchart




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PostPosted: Sun, 22nd Jan 2012 15:41    Post subject:
It's a standard that will fade away and be replaced by nothing. Physical distribution of media in almost all cases will be dead in a decade.
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outtanames




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PostPosted: Sun, 22nd Jan 2012 21:05    Post subject:
I seriously don't get all the people who get bluray drives for a new rig... it's just stupid. Nobody uses bluray. Blockbuster in here had bankrupt because of it.
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PostPosted: Sun, 22nd Jan 2012 21:19    Post subject:
im using double layer dvds for home cinema : p


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PostPosted: Mon, 30th Jan 2012 22:36    Post subject:
outtanames wrote:
I seriously don't get all the people who get bluray drives for a new rig... it's just stupid. Nobody uses bluray. Blockbuster in here had bankrupt because of it.


The new King Arthur II game for PC came on Bluray via retail. Cool Face


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PostPosted: Mon, 30th Jan 2012 23:55    Post subject:
I have purchased that same drive some time ago and this is what I did. I used to collect all 1080P releases ...then I got into usenet, and updated everything to bd50 - then I realized I am using 10tb+ to store all of these ... then I started burning all bd50 releases, especially 3dBD of my 3dtv and movies I actually care to keep in optimal quality. I found a place online where I can order 10 blank bd50 discs for around $26 and 50 disc spindle oef bd25's here is around $30 too which is much better than a few months ago ... since I have a ps3/3dtv it makes sense for me to burn all blurays in their native form for my collection. If you have a fast internet connection and this is your goal then yes ... I have not had one single coaster yet and it takes less than 20 minutes to burn any full bd50!


fuck ...
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