Quad-Interface Blu-Ray Burner at 12x Appears

[cyberkuberiah]

the reliability of burned optical disks is not as good as manufactured optical disks -period- . even the costs do not justify themselves . for 90-110 dollars i can get 1 tb hdd = about 19/20 "dual layer" disks' capacity free of dust , scratches and capable of reading and writing itself . for a few more get eSata external .

whats ok is bluray readers , they are needed .

 

[tester24]

Still waiting for Blue-ray 2nd gen to come out so they will be more affordable and faster.

 

[eccentric909]

[citation][nom]bin1127[/nom]The online file sharing is the precursor to cloud computing. But would you save your entire family photo albums on google? some things are worth burning. At 5 Mb a jpg you need blu-ray.[/citation]

LOL Why would you need blu-ray? You can get an external 1TB HD for ~$100, which is faster and easier to back-up your pictures and/or data with. Not to mention its also a lot more reliable than optical media.

So no, you don't need "blu-ray" for that. Just a USB port and an external hard drive.

 

[buzznut]

I am of the same opinion, that this would have a fairly small market right now. I have no need for a bluray burner. I suppose I might in the future if I were making my own hidef home movies, but I would certainly wait until prices fell. Quite a lot acutally.

Ditto eccentric, an external HD makes a lot of sense as far as storage goes.

 

[mook33]

an external HDD (or internal, for that matter) is a mixed bag, unless it's RAIDed; I've had EVERY major brand of hard drive fail on me at one point or another. Other friends have lost critical data as well. Optical media, while it does "die" eventually, seems a much more 'stable' solution in many regards; I have CD-R's that work just fine dating from 1998. Then again, I have hard drives that have worked since then, too (though none have been actually USED in years...).
I would definitely back up to blu ray...if the cost of the media wasn't so absurd. It's not the price of the burners that's limiting its adoption rate...
If you want "safe" HDD backups, you either need to RAID 1 or RAID 5 -- both of which can be costly endeavors. Ironically, it's the path I've currently taken (Drobo).

 

[Guest]

People that really need it buy it it's that simple. People that want this cheap is mostly for ripping movies. If there wasn't any warez on the internet or illegal movies Bluray would sell like pieces of bread. Anyway the idea of buying more HD's terrabytes is cheap nowadays and faster.

 

[tmc]

The longer blue ray burners & media delay in cutting the price.. the shorter their lifespan & relevancy as a PC industry part remains intact. We start a new year in just under 2 months. Flash is slowly making inroads as a preferred media storage device. Along with large capacity hard drives, and online backup blue ray is looking mighty sad. I can imagine DVRs and other devices with card slots, hard drives and wireless technology to replace disc backups and even dvd's might see their relevancy decline the way VHS and analog media did a decade ago. Why not have ~$59 readers, ~$150 burners and $1-3 discs (based on volume) NOW instead of 5 years from now, when it will be too late?

 

[mook33]

I'd be up for purchasing blu-ray media if the price was properly relative to DVD-R/DL media. Right now though, they're priced much higher (I believe)...unless you buy in HUGE bulk, which would be a $1,000+.
I can understand why they don't want it mainstream priced, because that would be an invitation to copy blu-ray movies. But why have them at all, if even the people who want it for archiving data (as I do) can look and say, "Wow...that's quite an overpriced per/MB / GB ratio...".

 

[Sean John]

I think that as long as the optical media speeds don't match your burner's write speed -- BD-R is currently at what, 6X? -- BD-RE is at 4X, you won't get any joy out of this. Real-world application is still non-existent for this drive's speed (except maybe if they put 6X or 8X Blu-Ray read speed for PS3s, hehe).

My DIGISTOR external Blu-Ray drive -- http://www.digistor.com/Digistor-External-Blu-ray-Burner-USB-2-0-Tray-Load -- for it's sleek design and portability, still rocks at 4X write speed.

 

[sunflier]

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