On Thu, August 20, 2015 6:52 am, Mauricio Tavares wrote:
> On Thu, Aug 20, 2015 at 7:34 AM, Marcin Trendota <moonwolf.rh@xxxxxxxxx>
> wrote:
>> W dniu 20.08.2015 o 13:26, Mauricio Tavares pisze:
>>> On Aug 20, 2015 6:54 AM, "ken" <gebser@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>>>>
>>>> One of the build options for a laptop I'm looking at buying is DVD vs
>>> Blu-Ray. I've never used Blue-ray before, so is there some compelling
>>> reason, as a Linux guy, to want to get Blu-ray?
>>> First of all, is this going to be your desktop or a server? If
>>> the
>>> later, can't see the point for blueray. One of the compelling reasons
>>> against is that only movies use it. Second, it has dmr crap in it that
>>
>> I used to use Blu-Ray as backup device.
>>
> In that case, the concern about drm is null and void. That said,
> how did that work out for you? I thought about doing that because of
> the sheer capacity but my experience using DL DVDs for backup was not
> as good as the original claims. Retention was not good after a year or
> so, which led me to use hard drives instead with a slow rotation
> policy and keeping hardware to read it (poor man's futureproofing).
>
I do have BD, external though (USB; Buffalo BRXL-PC6U2 which I would
highly recommend). I use it whenever I need to read [often somebody's else
BD] or write big chunk of data onto something [very convenient dimentions
if you need to send it elsewhere]. I used it to make image of Windows
system my laptop came with (after I added all I may need on Windows), so I
can restore my laptop from that BD. I doubt I will ever need that, as I
wiped the system in favor of FreeBSD (which is single system on my
laptop). I do not use BDs for backups though, I backup everything,
including laptops to bacula backup server.
Just my $0.02.
Valeri
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