Question Blue ray disks

[Hasselblad]

I have just done a weekly backup on my replacement Blue Ray drive and see that 128GB disks are easily available, (I remember when a CD to write was £10)

Do others back up this way ?

 

[garioch7]

@Hasselblad ,

In answer to your question: No, I do not.

Using BD disks is much slower to write/verify, not reusable, and very expensive, compared to purchasing a quality external drive or cloud storage.

I use my BD disks for their intended purpose: recording FHD videos for distribution to clients and friends.

Just my two cents. Have a great day.

Regards,
Phil

 

[Misgar]

I have just done a weekly backup on my replacement Blue Ray drive and see that 128GB disks are easily available,

Take care. I've had mixed results backing up to optical disks and now prefer 800GB LTO (tapes).

I stopped using "safer" single layer BD-R to backup RAW+JPG files in 2018 when I bought my first external SAS LTO drive, similar to this SCSI drive. Only £85 on eBay.
https://business.currys.co.uk/catal...lto-4-hh-tape-drive-lto-ultrium-scsi/P143910P

I can fit all 660GB of RAW + JPG files from a 4-week holiday on to one 800GB tape. I wouldn't feel safe using Blu-ray any more, but I still use 25GB discs to play back GoPro footage on the big TV.

You might find this series of articles about 128GB Blu-ray interesting:

https://goughlui.com/2024/10/21/experimenting-with-bdxl-part-1-the-media/

https://goughlui.com/2024/10/27/experimenting-with-bdxl-part-2-burning-some-discs/

https://goughlui.com/2024/10/27/exp...quality-scanning-gone-wrong-ft-tsst-se-506cb/

https://goughlui.com/2024/10/28/experimenting-with-bdxl-part-4-scanning-bdxl-discs-feat-lg-bh16ns55/

Best of luck trying to interpret the BDXL scan results, but I encountered problems verifying the last 10% of some discs where a few files were corrupted. As a result I stopped filling discs and saved only 21GB to nominal 25GB single-layer discs.

 

[Roland Of Gilead]

I have just done a weekly backup on my replacement Blue Ray drive and see that 128GB disks are easily available, (I remember when a CD to write was £10)

Do others back up this way ?

You've a couple of threads going about back ups. You might want to merge to keep it all in one space.