[geeks] Cheap/reliable backup?

[Lionel Peterson]

The prices I see are just under a dollar a disc for 25 Gigs of storage. That
compares to about half the cost of a low-end bare SATA drive at
$35-40/Terabyte.

For example:
http://www.microcenter.com/product/403410/Hub_Printable_BD-R_LTH_25GB_6X_50_P
ack_Spindle

Of course, tossing 40 discs into a burner to backup 1TB is not my idea of fun,
but for some applications it could be suitable.

Lionel

On Dec 2, 2013, at 2:20 PM, Mouse <mouse at Rodents-Montreal.ORG> wrote:

>> If you want a 'put a backup on an off-line shelf' solution, I kinda
>> like the idea of writing 20-25 Gig on a writeable Blu-Ray disc... (I
>> have no idea how long such discs are readable/archive life).
>
> Depending on how much you have to back up, maybe.  Checking briefly
> makes me think they cost roughly $1/gig; in large sizes, ordinary disk
> drives are about a tenth of that, so if you'll want more than 100G or
> so and don't particularly need the physical ruggedness of burnt bluray,
> disks may be a better answer.