Pioneer shows off Blu-ray writers with XL support

nice!

50 BD-R discs, or one BD-R XL disc. Same price. I'll wait.

What a waste!

Optical disc format is so antiquated. I'm thinking 500Gb is the MINIMUM storage capacity I would benefit from seeing all the HDD space I and most others have.

.................Next!

issues i have simple dvd's are cheaper

I agree DVD-R's are cheaper.

Optical disks do offer a certain level of convenience over external drives or something like that but hard drives are very cheap,you can set your self up with an external hard drive with significantly more storage for at most the same amount of money.

If I use optical discs to back things up I like to back them up categorically. I can think of few examples where I would have 100 GB worth of data in one category to back up. For the typical user might be the same way as well.

All that being said I do find it to be an impressive accomplishment, just not something I would go for at the moment.

I use optical disks, but blue ray(Hard Drives CAN be ERASED a lot of people don't want to admit that fact)....I am looking forward to Holographic Versatile discs (LINK BELOW)

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Holographic_Versatile_Disc

They can get up to 6TB PER DISC on these! Imagine the storage possibilites for companies or even some consumers. They could put pretty much their whole collection on one disk.

Of course they will probably not hit the market for some years to come for the average consumer.

But right now we have blue ray XL, so that will be good enough for most consumers, as they have not even shifted in mass to blue ray discs yet! At least not like they adopted the DVD going from VHS to DVD.

A lot of people would ask what you would need so much storage for, but I have 5 TB of external hard drives and a lot is taken up by TV shows. Because I get the whole series with all the seasons! So it takes up more room than you would think.

I'm pretty much over Blu ray for storage, I get cheap drives replace them at first sign of smart errors, if out of warranty sell them off to highest bidder.

I am around 5-6TB need to replace a 2TB drive tho

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Originally posted by ZippyDSM:

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I'm pretty much over Blu ray for storage, I get cheap drives replace them at first sign of smart errors, if out of warranty sell them off to highest bidder.

I am around 5-6TB need to replace a 2TB drive tho

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Originally posted by joebloe12:

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Originally posted by ZippyDSM:

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I'm pretty much over Blu ray for storage, I get cheap drives replace them at first sign of smart errors, if out of warranty sell them off to highest bidder.

I am around 5-6TB need to replace a 2TB drive tho

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Good luck! Hope your drive does not crash or get erased.

I will stick with blue ray.

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I'm still a huge fan of optical back up, but the wait time on burning all that data has got to be murder. Not to mention the fact if you burn anything too fast the cost of that coaster you just bought.

I mean, I love the idea of getting some more meat out there on semi-permanent media that isn't Sony mandated, but I don't know that I want to necessarily wait for 24 hours to know if I have a $50 screw up either.

Optical backup is still the way to go and BD discs are cheap now. Sure you can get a 4.7GB DVD for $0.30 but you can get a 25GB disc for under $1 with 5x the space so for size the BD is cheaper and less discs.

But these days it's more about lazy so that is why we see HDD's being so popular for backup.

As to the article it seems they are milking the market as they can provide much higher capacities then 100GB right now.