What's your opinion on using rw Blu-ray disks for storing movies, ect? (lemmy.dbzer0.com)

submitted 8 months ago by ziixe@lemmy.dbzer0.com to c/piracy@lemmy.dbzer0.com

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Well I thought about using them instead of buying a hdd, I looked for some comparisons and found a 50 pack of 25gb blu ray drives and a 2tb harddrive for 60, it can store 35 movies more (thinking the movie is 24 GB) than the pack of drives, and that isn't accounting the disk drive to read the disks (Keep in mind these are just the first results on Google for me)

In my opinion the blu ray drives are more fun to use than clicking a file on a computer, but the storage payoff is huge

What is your opinion on this?

PS: I'm definitely buying the hdd instead

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[-] ANIMATEK@lemmy.world 3 points 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago)

If you use .iso files you will be missing out in quality and availability. If a better version of something you already burned is released, you will miss on that too.

If you use .mkv files, then why bother with discs in the first place? HDD in network and access everything, everywhere at any time.

If you start to scale to TBs, the price per GB of HDDs starts to drop dramatically. Look for refurbished HDDs in eBay.

The only real reason I can think of where physical beats digital is for playing the FEL DV layer on some UHD releases. But even then, there are ways to circumvent that.