Re: archiving P2 cards

I have been using blu-ray for about 1 year now as one method of archiving p2 cards.

I bought a Panasonic SW5582 internal and Toast 8. The drive cost me about $1000, but now I have seen them for less than $500.

The burn time is 45 mins for a 25GB disc, and about 90 mins for a 50GB. These speeds are of course optimal, and not average.

A 50GB disc may take 2 hours to burn and another 2 hours to verify.

The 50GB discs are down to $30 per disc. Maybe less if you can buy in bulk.

You can use Toast to burn data across multiple discs, but the size of the discs must match. So if you want to burn 60GB of data, you will need to use 3 25GB discs or 2 50GB discs.

I also have a Quantum 600a dlt drive with the mxf support. I like this format for projects that are larger than 50GB. Each tape holds 300GB.

Hope that helps.



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Art Aldrich

Leader, NJ FCP UG

www.njfcpug.org