Well I thought about using them instead of buying a hdd, I looked for some comparisons and found a 50 pack of 25gb blu ray drives and a 2tb harddrive for 60, it can store 35 movies more (thinking the movie is 24 GB) than the pack of drives, and that isn’t accounting the disk drive to read the disks (Keep in mind these are just the first results on Google for me)
In my opinion the blu ray drives are more fun to use than clicking a file on a computer, but the storage payoff is huge
What is your opinion on this?
PS: I’m definitely buying the hdd instead
Having to stand up and put in a disc when you just want to watch The Lord of the Rings Extended Edition on your toilet is too much work.
You need a player. I have no player. A 1TB HDD is easier to manage than multiple BRs. People buy movies on BR and rip it to store on a HDD.
Going the other way round doesn’t make sense to me.
I would only use CDs for long term storage, theyre still the best for that. HDD for convenience.
CDs degrades with time.
Blu-ray isn’t really rewritable (at least, not in the same way as a hard drive). You can add to it incrementally and erase everything once, after which it becomes a normal disc. So ultimately, it’s one-directional writing.
But my biggest problem with CDs (of which Blu-ray is a type), is that they are only as good as both the reader and the physical storage method. Want to watch a movie? Maybe the player’s laser has dust on it (or worse, a scratch). Maybe the motor has a short. Maybe your disc has a scratch in just the right place to make it unreadable by the player.
There’s just a lot more points of failure, even if you wanted to go that route.
You’re thinking of BD-R: BD-RE can be rewritten/erased hundreds of times
