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Fujitsu is still putting Blu-ray drives in laptops; and people in Japan still want them (www.techspot.com)

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[–] unphazed@lemmy.world 3 points 1 week ago (1 children)

I've looked pretty extensively into this. My plan is to get a disk toaster and pick up some refurb drives, around 8tb or so. The cost of a good bluray burner is about $160, and each 100yr disc is $11 for 50gb. Meanwhile the toaster is $30, and HDDs are about $150 new for 8tb, less with refurbs. I just know that one coaster run of a bluray burn would send me off to a tirade. Less space, less cost, less risk of damage, and more likely to be useable in the future. Bonus for read speeds and rewrite ability.

[–] arcterus@piefed.blahaj.zone 1 points 1 week ago (1 children)

I think if you've got a ton of data, that does make more sense. I personally don't think I have much that I think is super important though (at the least atm, it'd mostly be photos). The drives will likely die earlier though.

[–] unphazed@lemmy.world 2 points 1 week ago

My photos rest on my 8tb WD Pro NAS drive, and OMV does a backup on another smaller 2TB drive. I also have an external 2TB for occasional extra backups. I plan on converting all my dvdr and cdrs into hdd data. Sadly, a bunch of my cdrs are kaput, rotted and falling apart. I never realized how important it was to buy burnable media that uses chemicals instead of organic dyes. I guess I just assumed 15yrs ago it was all chemical.