Do you have a blu-ray burner?

[domerocket]

Only use PS3 for BD

 

[SMOGZINN]

I didn't even bother to put one in my HTPC.

 

[Auric]

Well, I use mine for deep backup (offsite archiving, just in case the house burns down...) of some important data. But its only about once a month...

I still like to have optical as well as magnetic. Also, device independent obviously.

^A good LG burner is $70 right now at Newegg. I've seen them for ten dollars less than that.

Samsung slim external writers have been $68 shipped recently. Hitachi-LG slim internal with M-Disc are about the same (add your own cheap eSATAp or USB adapter cable).

RAID is one of the absolute worst ways to backup data.

Why does the myth of RAID for backup continue? Maybe if you have your own li'l data center bunker but otherwise it only benefits uptime and even then only if you have your own power generator. You're better with offline parity.

 

[thm1223]

I pretty much just stream media throughout my house, so there is no need for a physical copy of it since everything is stored on a RAID 5 NAS.

About the only thing I burn are CDs for my car, and that is because I've been too lazy to install an aftermarket iPod adapter into the stereo system.

 

[bendixG15]

What a lazy bunch .............

 

[paul878]

Blue Raid media are way to expensive for it to become main stream. With flash storage so cheap, optical disk going to go the way of the floppy soon.

 

[nageov3t]

I don't really see a need.

the only time I ever even burn any disks whatsoever anymore is when I'm burning audio CD's for my car (I like keeping some CD's in my car for situations when my cellphone battery may be low, and I'd rather keep burned CDR's in thin jewel cases than the originals, in case my car ever gets broken into or I run into a valet with sticky fingers)

I run my backups to a hard drive and I use a thumb drive for moving files between computers.

 

[Revolution]

I don't have even a Blu-Ray player.

 

[Red Squirrel]

It's funny, when CD burners first came out, it was the most awesome thing "omg I can burn my very own CDs at home!" and I remember the first CD I burned and then played in a stereo I thought it was awesome that I could do that at home. Or I can burn like 500 floppies worth of data on a single disc! So awesome! Then DVDs came by, 4.7GB of data! Now it's like "meh, I have a 10TB NAS". Funny to look back and think how things have changed.

 

[exdeath]

LOL silly mechanical media is so 1980s. You guys use CPUs made out of relays too right?

550 MB sec minimum or go home. I can copy 25 GB to an SSD faster than a BD-R takes just to burn a lead in track.

 

[fatpat268]

Nope, I've got a bluray drive solely to rip my entire collection to my Plex server. After I finish that, I'll probably take the drive out of the case.

 

[Eug]

I occasionally make secondary backups on Bluray. Eg. My entire music collection fits on two BDs, and I can store those disks away from the computer, in a cupboard somewhere.

What prevents me from burning more is the cost of good quality media.

 

[wirednuts]

LOL silly mechanical media is so 1980s. You guys use CPUs made out of relays too right?

550 MB sec minimum or go home. I can copy 25 GB to an SSD faster than a BD-R takes just to burn a lead in track.

yep especially since ssd prices are dropping finally. it will likely start snowballing, and good fast 64GB ssd's will probably cost $20. at that point, it would be feasible to use the ssd's as cartridges basically... set up a hot swap bay into the front of a case and it just pop in the movie you want. each 64GB ssd could hold full quality movies.