New Backup Device

marklarry28

Soon will be available for a nice price for our backup.:D






http://www.tigerdirect.ca/applications/SearchTools/item-details.asp?EdpNo=2149652&CatId=2305

http://www.tigerdirect.ca/applications/SearchTools/item-details.asp?EdpNo=2148783&CatId=0

gluwater

It is a great advance over DVD but I'll wait a year or two so the drives can be tested in the real world and the prices drop substantially. Plus this should not be your only back up.

SpeshulEd

I just read the other day that another company (think it might have been samsung) had actually built disc that is actually a 3 in 1. The disc will have blu ray and hd-dvd on one side, and normal dual layer dvd on the other.

new technology is always fun, but i'm going to wait for it to catch up with itself. I'm sure soon enuf you'll be able to find the combo burner for $50 just like dvd burners today.

Bendr

SpeshulEd wrote:

I just read the other day that another company (think it might have been samsung) had actually built disc that is actually a 3 in 1. The disc will have blu ray and hd-dvd on one side, and normal dual layer dvd on the other.

I'm confused, what is the purpose in that?

Why would you want to carry arround a regular dvd, if you are using hd-dvd? I would think you would just cary around the one you use, if you needed another interface, you would buy a seperate disk. Or am I misunderstanding? I assume it acts like seperate disks super glued together(not literally)?

Ben

SpeshulEd

its kind of like the when dvds first came out and they were double sided, widescreen on one side, fullscreen on the other. With this, one side will be HD, while the other is regular dvd.

http://www.engadget.com/2006/09/18/threes-company-warner-patents-all-in-one-hybrid-disc/

It could be a good idea, it could be a waste...I myself think I'll be looking more into HD DVD as Blu-Ray is Sony, and I'm not the biggest fan of their propriety issues they have on every single thing they make.

Bendr wrote:

I'm confused, what is the purpose in that?

Why would you want to carry arround a regular dvd, if you are using hd-dvd? I would think you would just cary around the one you use, if you needed another interface, you would buy a seperate disk. Or am I misunderstanding? I assume it acts like seperate disks super glued together(not literally)?

Ben

claudermilk

Meh. Like many others, I'll wait for the VHS vs Beta Round 2 battle to settle before making a jump. I won't trust this for backups either, I have little confidence that the new, higher-density variation will be any more reliable than current burnable optical media.

marklarry28

This is only starting.

Blu-Ray should be able to burn DVDs with 200GB.
The great thing of this is... others will launch their technology as well and then we will decide what is our needs

mr peas

I remember when the first CD-ROM burners came out. Boyyy those were expensive! But it paid off when you had a PSX, . Then the DVD burners came out, then the dual-layer, now theyre all super cheap.

But yeah, I cant wait until they come out and more companies begin building them. I'd back up everything I rarely use on those. Especially photos more than a year old, store them up on disks and put them on a box/shelf somewhere.

Scott_Quier

mr peas wrote:

I remember when the first CD-ROM burners came out. Boyyy those were expensive! But it paid off when you had a PSX, . Then the DVD burners came out, then the dual-layer, now theyre all super cheap.

But yeah, I cant wait until they come out and more companies begin building them. I'd back up everything I rarely use on those. Especially photos more than a year old, store them up on disks and put them on a box/shelf somewhere.

Then you need to be sure you don't forget about them being on the shelf. The burnable media do have a shelf-life (no pun intended here) and they need to be refreshed in a periodic basis - that means you need to burn a new copy (maybe more than one of each?) every couple of years.

ESiggins

To be honest, these advances make me nervous. I'm always afraid that my backups will become obsolete. I still wish I had some of those old PC games I used to carry around on 5" floppy. :cry