[FIRST OFF* sorry to derail this thread about blu-ray,
to storage devices, but bear with me, it is somewhat relevant*]
maybe i'm overdoing it (as usual)...
but i'm caught in a terrible space crunch..
for awhile....hard drive sizes were big enough 20gigs, 40 gigs, 80/120/200 etc
to keep up with storing all my vcd/mpg/ and real audio files......
heck, i used to have a removable 1 gig drive, that i used to put all my graphics on, etc.
(in the late 90's).. i never had my own high speed internet access until earlier this year,
when i gave in.. up until that point it was all dial up, so i could only download so many
gig's of mp3 and the occasional video..... even then, with a cheap cd-burner, and cheap
writable cd's, i managed to only have a few hundred of them to manage, so it didn't get
out of hand...
jump to earlier this year, now with broadband, bittorrent, newsgroups access, i know
i've download a few TERABYTES in the last few months (yes, it actually is unlimited access),
so at first, i bought a 320gig drive, which filled up in a week, and then i bought a second
one, which filled up the next week, and then i bought 2 500gig drives, which filled up
2 weeks later...so that wasn't working out......(mostly movies/tv shows/my own ripped
cds and dvds)....
i 'only' have a 400 gig drive in my computer (which crashed recently), and bought a
replacement recently, which is also full now........................... in the meantime, i've had
a dvd-rom burner, and i buy the 50 pack Single Layer DVD spindles every week, and back up stuff to those,...
so now i have several 50 pack spindles filled up with stuff also !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
(maybe 800 x 4.7 gigs total)..... i bought a HD DVD drive, and have about 30 or 40 movies
on their, and have been backing them up to DVD DL also...................so anyways, my point
is, i don't really know what to do.... the BD Burners can burn 25/50 gigs to a disc... but
the price point isn't that great..
1 DVD-R single layer is about US$0. 20 or so... ($10 for 50 pack) [so .20/ 4.7 gigs]
1 DVD-DL dual layer is about US $1.20 or about 6X the cost of a single layer (i'm sure it could be cheaper)............ or [1.20/9 gigs]
Hard disk prices are falling and are about $100 per Terabyte or [$0.10 per gig]
I don't know if I can trust hard drives, or set up a Network Storage Array or what is better..
My final thought is, now I've starting getting HD rips (tv shows/movies etc)....and they
take UP HUGE amounts of space, and most don't even fit on a DVD DL (ie wookiegroomer
versions of star wars)................so i'm really at a loss on where to go...
A blu-ray burner again is overpriced, along with the blanks, although i trust optical
media a little bit more now......................................................................................
i don't think we'll seen 100gig optical or higher any time soon, and wouldn't it be
risky having that much data on one disk? i know the blu ray writable come with
a special surface to protect them , but still...........................................................
i don't know, maybe holographic storage is our only hope?
right now, i'm in the nightmarish position of trying to figure out how to organize
several terabytes of data, and be able to find something without digging through
hundreds of discs................
later
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