Retail discs (using dyes) are unlikely to be as universally usable or last anything like as long as a HDD.
A professionally manufactured disc (ie not the sort of retail blank media using dyes that we normally buy) might last better but by how much is open to question and obviously costs a hell of a lot more.
Besides, set against the cost per gb & and the (still) totally ridiculous price of Blu-ray burners, HDD is far and away the most cost effective option comnpared to any type of Blu-ray disc .
Then there's the not so small matter of discs becoming obsolete soon.
Flash is set (within 2 years according to the road-map) to offer 6 times the bandwidth of Blu-ray and up to 2tb and all in a much smaller package.
I'm looking forward to dumping all my bulky discs for a little book of flash cards (and if flash prices continue to fall the way they have so far I won't even care if I have to have another little duplicate book of them as a back-up for any paranoia lurking).
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Retail discs (using dyes) are unlikely to be as universally usable or last anything like as long as a HDD.
A professionally manufactured disc (ie not the sort of retail blank media using dyes that we normally buy) might last better but by how much is open to question and obviously costs a hell of a lot more.
Besides, set against the cost per gb & and the (still) totally ridiculous price of Blu-ray burners, HDD is far and away the most cost effective option comnpared to any type of Blu-ray disc .
Then there's the not so small matter of discs becoming obsolete soon.
Flash is set (within 2 years according to the road-map) to offer 6 times the bandwidth of Blu-ray and up to 2tb and all in a much smaller package.
I'm looking forward to dumping all my bulky discs for a little book of flash cards
(and if flash prices continue to fall the way they have so far I won't even care if I have to have another little duplicate book of them as a back-up for any paranoia lurking).