Re: Blue Ray Data DVD's

If your backup needs are modest then blu-ray is an attractive choice. Disks are cheap, as is the drive. LTO is more reliable but drives aren't cheap. And, accessing one file from an entire LTO is not as easy as it is from Blu-ray.

Blu-ray is not quite as delicate as people make it out to be. It has a pretty tough coating. To find out how tough, make a blu-ray disk and then place it in your bag without a cover. Carry it around for a few days with keys, loose change in the same pocket. Then take it out, wash it with soap and running water and run it. You'll be surprised.

Blu-ray will also one day become obsolete but when that happens you will need to migrate your entire blu-ray disk collection to the new medium whatever it is. Maybe it will be solid state, maybe larger disks like 100 Gb or even 1 Tb per disk.

One more thing. dual layer blu-ray disks hoild 50 Gb all right but they write slow. One dual layer takes more time than 2 single layer disks done separately.

Neil Sadwelkar
neilsadwelkar.blogspot.com

FCP Editor, Mumbai, India.
Completely PAL.