I really wish BDXL would hit the consumer market. I archived terabytes of data on single layer 25GB blurays and it's tedious to span across 10 discs for a larger storage folder.
I'm mildly curious why you'd do that - at a quick look on Amazon a 4TB hard drive seems to work out at less / GB than writeable blue rays, plus way less hassle plus in my personal experience hard disks seem more reliable than optical media - my 10 year old hard disks all work, cd-r's I made of similar age usually not?
I have 2 drobos maxed out at about 32TBs. The blurays are my cold storage. Blurays will last a hell of a lot longer than hard drives when kept away from the sun. Just because you have hard drives that last 10 years, doesn't mean you're not experiencing bit rot.
Ta. I just googled and found blurays use a completely different technology to my old CD-Rs which used organic dye and were awful for lifespan. Though I think I'll stick to my Moore's Law type disk strategy where I buy a new HD every few years and copy the entire old HD onto about 15% of it.
I wish the same. I needed over 160 BD-R to archive 5K RAW footage of my around the world movie and just archiving them on a single BluRay writer took a few days. I wish there was more progress in consumer space...
