LET ME DIE ALREADY

LET ME DIE ALREADY

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*throw AOL CD at*

But how else would I rip my FLAC

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Blurays are still the most cost efficient (dollar per gigabyte) way of cold storage for the average consumer.
And compared to other solutions they have a mindbogglingly low price of entry (a blu ray drive is fraction of the cost of something like an LTO drive)
With the recent invention of gimmicks such as M-disk using mineral based dyes instead of organics they're probably the most durable as well.

I still have CDs I burned in the early 2000 that still work and read just fine without errors.
25/50G per disk is not some pantie-wetting amount of storage space but it's "pretty fucking good" still considering that other than making sure the disks are not exposed to extreme temperature changes, moisture and potentially dangerous light sources like sun they're very secure and you can expect to be able to read them just fine after being pulled from the closet in 2030.

>only 16 bits
pathetic.

I like my fancy cup holder.

ME FIRST

B-but muh DIY lasors...

No

Blu ray is proprietary garbage

No one will drop DVDs

The British plug of PC plugs.

DVD format, or optical discs in general?

What?

>I still have CDs I burned in the early 2000 that still work and read just fine without errors.
While I do as well, please tell me you've re-read and re-burned the data. Even good media can start to degrade, and now you can get a little peice of mind making 1 Blu-ray containing all that info.

You only have to deal with proprietary garbage with Blu-ray video. Granted, it's still bullshit that the god-awful drm still exists.

>>only 16 bits
>pathetic.
moron
skip ahead to 8:40 to learn about why your misconceptions are totally wrong
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>tfw replaced DVD drive on laptop with an empty HDD caddy

>PC gets stuck on BIOS drive detection
>unplug DVD drive
>boots up fine
Looks like mine already died

i have one but i need to connect a usb to sata dongle to it if i want to use it because i bought a shitty mobo that does not have enough sata ports.

i was ironic; lossless is a meme

>High school, 9th grade
>School has a bunch of simple xp desktops
>they all have drives like this
>Sit in business class in one of the lab rooms
>Pass the time by opening the drive, holding it open, hitting the close button
>Eventually this would break it
>Tfw I probably broke 6 or 7 of these
living on the edge. I pay taxes now so I guess i'm sorry

No worry mate. I have all of them on my archive drive. It's not like they contained any crucial data at all. In early 2000 I was still a kid. I don't think anyone will miss pirated Office2k installers and low resolution pictures of late 90s pornstars with massive fake tits

>lossless is a meme
just stop

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Even better than magnetic tape? I get longevity is an issue there, but it's gotta be cheaper than Blu-ray, right? Or are you assuming we don't want to put up with sequential access?

At the scale of how Blu-ray would be used, magnetic tapes aren't cost-effective. Magnetic starts becoming cost-effective at really large deployments.

High cost of entry. I'm not going to pay 1000 USD for a used LTO6 drive If I don't regularly back up 1T+ of data.
LTO6 is cost efficient when you exceed certain threshold of the data amount you want to keep.

> get longevity is an issue there
While definitely less than optical media I don't think it's actually that big of a problem. I've heard it numerous times that magnetic tape cartridges are "pretty good" when stored in proper conditions and with bare minimum of common sense.

I still buy physical media. I have a large movie and anime collection. Blu-ray, DVDs, and music CDs. Why would I ever want to let DVD drives die already? If anything I want the tech to mature even further and allow me to get my hands on a Blu-ray drive capable of reading/writing quad layer 100GB+ discs. Even better if we start to see 10 packs of said 100GB discs become less than $20 for the pack with M-disc rating too.

And the general hardware availability is scarce when it comes to LTO. You can get tapes but fuck me getting a drive for a decent price is pretty much impossible.

The cheapest drive I found (internal HP Storeever LTO6) with a quick search is 3500 USD. And LTO6 is already two generations behind.
For quarter the price I could get an autoloader unit for blu ray. The only problem is the size but still a lot more sensible choice than LTO for a home environment.
Which is a bummer. I would totally love to have an LTO drive.

>low resolution pictures of late 90s pornstars with massive fake tits
like jizz in the rain

>neckbeard with no mustache

I'll keep buying them. Running to Fry's later to get two Blu-Ray burners to swap in for the two DVD-RW drives in this machine.

I just finished interning for the tech department at a local school district. Thanks for giving us something to do.

why two drives?

So I can copy movies without having to swap discs.

I've had optical drives since my 486. Too much of a creature of habit to stop buying them now.

>hurrr use rewritable media for you installation media

>1000 USD for a used LTO6 drive
You can get a used LTO5 which will run half that and lower. LTO tapes can usually be read up to 2 generations higher, so LTO7 should be fully compatible, if you decide to upgrade in the future.
>LTO6 is cost efficient when you exceed certain threshold of the data amount you want to keep.
My simple estimate is that after writing over 8.6TBs an LTO5 setup with a used $500 drive will pay off itself compared to a BluRay setup.

>with a quick search is 3500 USD
My advise would be to buy used ones and of older generation. Then the drives can be easily gotten for less than $500.
>And LTO6 is already two generations behind.
Only an issue if the amount of data is significantly high or you're looking for over 300mb/s write speeds, but then BluRays would be inadequate too. "Older" really doesn't mean anything bad for LTO.

If somebody is seriously considering tape backup odds are they have a "significant" amount of data.

Well if people are looking at a BluRay solution then yes, they probably already have significant data. Else making multiple DVD copies with Parchive is more convenient.

>then yes
Then yes what? I didnt ask a question, I was stating facts.
anyone with an insignificant amount of data will either keep in on a spare harddrive of a couple flash drives.

Just let me rip my dvd's and then you'll rip son, and then you'll rip.