On Thu, August 20, 2015 7:01 am, Marcin Trendota wrote: > W dniu 20.08.2015 o 13:52, Mauricio Tavares pisze: >> On Thu, Aug 20, 2015 at 7:34 AM, Marcin Trendota <moonwolf.rh at gmail.com> >> wrote: >>> W dniu 20.08.2015 o 13:26, Mauricio Tavares pisze: >>>> On Aug 20, 2015 6:54 AM, "ken" <gebser at 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). > > Well, retention was not an issue in my case (that were monthly backups, > we didn't need to keep old backups). But eventually capacity became a > problem. Recently we have switched to RDX. > Which RDX? This: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/RDX ? Valeri ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ Valeri Galtsev Sr System Administrator Department of Astronomy and Astrophysics Kavli Institute for Cosmological Physics University of Chicago Phone: 773-702-4247 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++