Question I'm in the market for a Blu-Ray

[Raul_McCai]

I think I like ASUS. But my issue is I have computers all over the house
For backing up that data, an external would be best
So
Will the USB interface sped limitations matter when writing large data to a Blu Ray?
My instinct says probably not. A blue ray is like a CD and data moves fairly slowly across them.
Any one know anything about this?

 

[jojesa]

Which ASUS drive? Are you looking for a Blu-ray player?

A 6x-8x Blu-ray transfer at 27 MB/s and 36 MB/s respectively, so USB 2.0 should be fine.
USB 2.0 real speed tops at 35 to 40 MB/s.

 

[Raul_McCai]

If I go external BW-16D1X-U
If internal Bw-16D1HT
I only now realized I can get an internal and run it with a SATA to USB adaptor.
right now I have two DVD drives I'd have to replace one with the Blu Ray if I went internal.

 

[karenjoly]

Why bother writing to disk ? Slow horses.Just use a WD external disk " Mt Disk" or other similars. Faster and simpler with no loose disks.

 

[jsmithepa]

Backing up to optical? ancient slow may not able to read it back with another drive. only if archiving then go M-Disk. Regular day-to-day backup, use plain old HD.

 

[Raul_McCai]

Backing up to optical? ancient slow may not able to read it back with another drive. only if archiving then go M-Disk. Regular day-to-day backup, use plain old HD.

Gee golly, I'd never have imagined that one blu ray drive wouldn't be able to read the work of another blu ray. Are they not standardized?
I've never heard of such a problem.
In fact I just googled it and a quick search revealed only problems with the hardware not seemingly related to what is described here.
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But to respond to your core thesis: Speed and reliability:
Yah there's not much faster than a HD esp a SSD
but
Isn't the data written to an optical device such as a DVD CD or BluRay more permanent than that written to a magnetic storage device? I've had floppies die. I've read about drive failures of all sorts from Electronic failures to LVM to MBR failures, seals leaking and letting moisture in causing rusting of the iron platters and even just corruption ofthe stored data.
and
security is another issue I didn't bother to mention.
I can use a blu Ray disk to temporairally store sensitive data and then destroy the disk
If I used a big drive I suppose I could partition it and use bleach bit on the partitions where sensitive material was stored.
and
Portability.
I suppose both are fairly portable
Maybe I should be looking at an external drive

Can bleach bit work on an SSD?

 

[hang-the-9]

For sensitive data, encrypt the drive, make sure you don't forget the password and keep the recovery key in a safe place. Have two backups of files. Using a blue ray drive for archive copies of something is fine, up to you what you do really. There are just better options for backups than an optical disk. Disks are not impervious to damage, they can be scratched, cracked, and construction flaws can cause issues with oxidation and the dye used to cause failures.

That is why for a real backup you want to have 3 copies of data, the original, and two backups, with one somewhere safe not in the same area as the others so if there is a flood or fire, you don't lose all the backup copies.