On Thu, August 20, 2015 6:52 am, Mauricio Tavares wrote:
On Thu, Aug 20, 2015 at 7:34 AM, Marcin Trendota moonwolf.rh@gmail.com wrote:
W dniu 20.08.2015 o 13:26, Mauricio Tavares pisze:
On Aug 20, 2015 6:54 AM, "ken" gebser@mousecar.com 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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