I'm not talking about shelf life or as collectible media, but I mean as a means of storing data? You can get 1.2TB of cold archival storage for $20 and in hard drives, they're now going for $27 per TB. It's only a matter of time when hard drives can catch up or do you think the price of blu-ray will scale to to be cheaper?
I've had an optical drive for ages and I remember burning DVDs years ago because it was cheaper than hard drives and I bought my Blu-ray burner when there was the hard drive fammine, so that could put my purchase decision into context. I thought of getting into 'Tubeing and putting my archives on blu-ray because it's the cheapest way (for now) and I could archive 2 hours of fraps footage on a single disc and it's not just crazy people like me that use blu-ray, Facebook even used Optical Jukeboxes instead of tape for some odd reason.
But I doubt this will be viable for long.
Honestly, I have not used optical media in the last... 6 years probably... Can't really recall the last time, but yeah... Optical media is pretty much dead, outside collectors, that want physical goods.
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I had too many USB-drives fail on me to rely on them for backup. So I got several boxes full with labeld blurays
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I meant as in price per gigabyte.
Yeah, I hear Sony's "Archive Disc" (of which is a Blu-Ray cartridge) will last 50 years. I heard about issues with first gen pressed CDs not lasting long and even more of an issue, the writable discs, but these blu-rays are hard to scratch.
I rarely ever use them. Got everything on my PC and my NAS.
If both were to crash, there is the offsite HDD I got locked up in a bank safe. That data would have to be updated using the burned BluRays and DVDs then.
If they fail first time sometimes they can be fixed easy. They got some issues that there partition start seams to be duplicated. (or forgot what name it was).
But yeah USB really suck for backup in any form.
I only use blu-ray's myself because i got a PS3 and think most people see it that way.
I rather rely on hard disks and just move the data before incalculated failures like old age.
I've never used them. Loads of people here probably haven't used them for years. Strictly speaking, they are an obsolete technology, but just like CDs which have been obsolete for at least 10 years, Blu-ray ain't goin' nowhere, not as long as Walmart and Best Buy can keep convincing old people to buy stacks of them because "my computer has a disk drive thingie for them"
If they're so obsolete, what superior technology replaced it? Are we gonna start shipping games on flash drives for people that don't have good Internet or data caps? GTA V was shipped on 7 DVDs.
crap....serious 7 dvd's? XD
do you know how many discs the ps4 version was?
But, like I said, even though they're obsolete, it doesn't mean they're gonna disappear, not by a long shot.
I myself never liked steam.. More of a box person myself and hate that steam games are useless on disc.
But i think that its indeed weird there is no bu-ray as standard inside a machine if it comes with a disc unit in it.
Hence why I put gog there as well.
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blu-ray is good for long term storage of things that you dont access frequently but want to use later on in life
Yeah, but bandwidth is a resource and for cold storage, blu-ray is the cheapest and probably more reliable than most hard drives.
I thought of just having a cheap SSD and a shit load of RAM for RAM Disc and when I get down to 40GB of free space, I just burn a blu-ray and whenever I want to load a game, I just copy from blu-ray and drop it in a ram disc so I wouldn't wear down my SSD.
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How long will Blueray movies be on sale for ?
Tell that the <10Mbit/s datacapped people.
Either we get >50Mbit/s uncapped for everyone or physical copies are going nowhere.
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A bit longer, the new ones just got HDR
HDR outside of 4k ? as in the standard BD disc got HDR ?