Blue Ray Re-writer

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I m interested to know about the Blue Ray technology.

What is it all about. How much More space dose it store than a DVD? How many layers it have to protect the data?

Which are the best Blue Ray Re-writers that are available in the market that are compatible with windows 7 ultimate.



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If DVD's aren't a truly reliable long term backup medium (and they are not) then Blu-Ray is even worse. Furthermore, the Blu-Ray discs themselves are expensive to say nothing of the writeable Blu-Ray drives. They aren't popular for those reasons. You can look up Blu-Ray on Wikipedia and get all the answers you seek.
 
Wow, I can't find BR-R discs anywhere. I found one for sale, includes 1 in the pack (is that even a pack lol?), for $13 CAD + tax.
 
vieya said:
I also want to know about blu-ray why isn't it a good long term or reliable long term.
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Because they aren't reliable over a long period of time. Neither are DVD-R or CD-R. Scratches ruin them and they ruin themselves without any help over a few years time. The most reliable backup is still hard drives. Set up a small RAID 2 with a couple of hard drives and use that. The only other reliable alternative is to use an off site, on-line back up service. That's a good option if you have fast inernet.
 
Oh wow I guess that means it's time to say buy to all those DVDs discs etc. and cds I've bought...ACK. thanks for the info I had no idea that it was this unreliable I've heard that it's what happens but I never knew that it was for real.
 
personally im not gonna bother with blu-ray, a BBC tech show said a few weeks back said about these new disks that store data in 3 dimensions and so far they have managed to get 500Gb on a single disk. i think im just gonna wait for then to come out unless games and whatnot start getting released on blu-ray
 
vieya said:
Oh wow I guess that means it's time to say buy to all those DVDs discs etc. and cds I've bought...ACK. thanks for the info I had no idea that it was this unreliable I've heard that it's what happens but I never knew that it was for real.
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I'm not trying to scare you. If you keep up with it you can be OK. If you have data in long term storage on optical disks you can make copies of the disks every couple of years on fresh media and possible by fine. That assumes that optical drives you use in the future will read disks burned with older drives. Sometimes that is a problem as well. Basically, optical discs aren't archival and you need to treat them that way.

I've been fooling around with personal computers since the Intel 8080 in the 1970's. I have never lost a byte of data in all that time because I am meticulous about backup. I started with floppy disks and moved to tape as things moved along. I tested CD-R but it wasn't reliable enough.

I maintain a network here. I have a NAS (RAID 2 box that is shared across the network) that I use for backup. I keep a second backup of critical files on a separate drive on the network. I replace any drives that are 4 years old. The drives in the NAS get replaced at 3 years. Sounds crazy but it is just a matter of the importance of your files. For gamers it isn't an issue. For some business applications it is life or death.
 
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