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Gear / Technical Help => Photo / Video Recording => Topic started by: Teen Wolf Blitzer on February 03, 2011, 02:46:37 AM
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$28 for a 20 pack? wow. I swear the last time I priced them they were like $20 a blank? Anyone recommend a good pc burner? >:D
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I use a Buffalo external usb burner.No coasters yet,burned about 50 bluray so far.
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Discs are on their way out. See thread on Sony closing its New Jersey cd plant. Says it all.
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Discs are on their way out. See thread on Sony closing its New Jersey cd plant. Says it all.
I have a feeling discs are on their way out the same way vinyl was on it's way out.
not that I think blu-ray discs and burners are a long term thing. I'm just saying discs in general as a medium for purchasing music will be here for quite a while, which is a darn good thing IMO.
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Discs are on their way out. See thread on Sony closing its New Jersey cd plant. Says it all.
"CD's" are on their way out.
That doesn't mean little discs that came after CD's are out.
I'm all for the end of CD's. Bring on the Hi-Def Audio (not that I actually think it would catch on since most people are happy with MP3's).
Still a bit pricey for me. I guess it wouldn't be a bad idea to have yet another form of media to store my backups on. Right now I'm 100% hard drive based, so I don't think it would hurt to add another medium. I don't believe burned media is the most reliable, but I don't consider anything 100% reliable.
Anyway, thanks for the heads up. When drives are $50 and discs under $1 each I'll bite.
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SSD and Flash drives are the wave of the future. You can have hard drives. Me no like moving parts.
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True but since we are not in the future we must use what is currently available.I love my bluray.
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True but since we are not in the future we must use what is currently available.I love my bluray.
Seriously, why are we never in the future? :'(
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SSD and Flash drives are the wave of the future. You can have hard drives. Me no like moving parts.
Solid State Drives and flash memory failure rates are right along side their moving parts counterparts in the industry. In many cases the failure rates for both SS mediums are higher depending on manufacturer.
The 'no moving parts is better/safer/etc' argument is not based in any factual data whatsoever. In theory the argument may sound reasonable but in the real world it's just not the case.
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probably because no one uses them. You can get a 4GB thumb drive for like $8 now, why burn a bunch of stuff to one disc once?
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I had a Kingston SSD 64GB die on me after a month of use. Damn thing just BSoD on me out of nowhere. All I had was Win 7 64bit on it. I got it replaced, but have yet to drop the OS back on it.
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probably because no one uses them. You can get a 4GB thumb drive for like $8 now, why burn a bunch of stuff to one disc once?
Countless small businesses buy the shit out of BluRay discs for backup and storage. And dare I say they're generally more reliable than Flash Drives. You drop a BluRay disc and scratch it sure you're probably hosed but i've seen too many flash drives crap out because of USB power spikes, folks not removing them correctly and a whole host of other things.
Physical media isn't completely dead its just more targeted nowadays.
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yeah, I guess. flash is just so much more useful and it's still cheap enough that you can buy two and back up to both just in case. BD's, you have to have a BD drive on your computer - which automatically cuts out all Apple users.
I've never used a BD-burner before, but I imagine it takes a long long time to burn.
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I use blu rays strictly for the purpose of burning my HD shoots to them with fancy intricate menu systems ,chapters ,easter eggs,bonus features and extra audio tracks.And to be played on a blu ray player connected to a hdtv. I dont think a flash drive does all that.I think most are just assuming blu ray is for file back up.
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True, for that they are the way to go
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probably because no one uses them. You can get a 4GB thumb drive for like $8 now, why burn a bunch of stuff to one disc once?
But by the same token, you're spending $2/GB on a really tiny medium. My Mac Pro has 6TB spread across the four bays and I don't think any of the drives were $2/GB. Plus, like I say, a 4GB drive only holds 4GB. You can spend a lot of time encoding and compressing... or you can just throw something in a directory where you can find it and the other few thousand items you've got stored. ;D
(And as I start to see the day coming when I'm going to have to start managing space, I'm starting to think a BR drive from OWC would give me a storage option for lots of stuff I'd like to have but is in the need-to-be-in-the-mood-for-it category... I don't really need to keep it on a media server as long as I can find it when I want it. That would be a metric buttload of really inconvenient thumb drives!)
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I had an SDHC card survive a run through the washer and dryer....... and the card still works to this day. Try that with a BR disc. :P
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You drop a BluRay disc and scratch it sure you're probably hosed
As an early adopter of blu-ray (via PS3) four years ago, I remember reading all the HD-DVD vs blu-ray arguments, and one drawback of blu-ray was that the data is 'burned' so close to the surface that it was more susceptible to data loss or corruption if scratched. Therefore, all commercial blu-rays have a nice protective coating on the surface that makes it fairly impervious to scratches (and therefore, turned into an advantage over HD-DVD, which like DVD had no protective coating). I've never seen writable blu-ray media so I don't know if they don't have that protection, although I guess not since it would most likely need to be applied after the disc has been pressed.
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It will take around 6 months more to become cheap because now it is a new thing for computers that is why everyone is after it to get it.
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probably because no one uses them. You can get a 4GB thumb drive for like $8 now, why burn a bunch of stuff to one disc once?
That would be a metric buttload of really inconvenient thumb drives!)
Not to mention a chafed rectum
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haha yeah. I guess I was more thinking of the 2TB drives for $120
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I had an SDHC card survive a run through the washer and dryer....... and the card still works to this day. Try that with a BR disc. :P
But will a SDHC card survive an EMP? :P
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I think if you're getting EMP'd you have larger issues...