Adcadet
Storage Freak
When I recently re-built my computer I used a cheap $25 DVD burner. I still have a few spindles of CD-Rs that I've never used, and a few dozen DVD-R and -RWs. I couldn't see Blue Ray being useful to me for anything other than perhaps watching movies, but for that I now have HTPC. So far I've burned a total of 4 DVDs in the past few months, all for a single project, and haven't felt the need to burn anything higher capacity.
However, I'd like to backup my most precious files (pictures, home videos) to give to family to store "off site." I've been planning on using an old-ish 500 GB hard drive I have, but I realize that right now I only have ~150 GB of stuff, although it is growing quickly thanks to HD video. It looks like a 15-pack of 25 GB media is ~$20, making the cost to use Blue Ray <$10 per backup, plus of course the $80+ for the burner. And nobody I know has a Blue Ray drive to read the media.
Is anybody using Blue Ray? Is it maturing as a technology to the point where people might actually burn optical media again?
However, I'd like to backup my most precious files (pictures, home videos) to give to family to store "off site." I've been planning on using an old-ish 500 GB hard drive I have, but I realize that right now I only have ~150 GB of stuff, although it is growing quickly thanks to HD video. It looks like a 15-pack of 25 GB media is ~$20, making the cost to use Blue Ray <$10 per backup, plus of course the $80+ for the burner. And nobody I know has a Blue Ray drive to read the media.
Is anybody using Blue Ray? Is it maturing as a technology to the point where people might actually burn optical media again?