Backup as Bluray or DVD

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Hey,

Do you guys still DVD's as backup or maybe started using Bluray ?

Im thinking about getting NAS with either DVD or Bluray Burner....

Bluray is much bigger in terms of capacity but still bit more expensive...

What are your thoughts on it ?

L.
 
here we go..

"£80 odd for the drive and £22 for 20 spindle 25gb BD-R.. initial cost might be high but that works out to £0.044/gb long term. compared to a 2tb drive @ £79 at £0.0395/gb... so not much in it.."

"its not too bad.. 1 25gb disk takes approx 1 hour to author at 4x write speed.

i just set it off when ive finished uploading and editing the set and go and have dinner."

taken from: http://www.talkphotography.co.uk/forums/showthread.php?t=269944&highlight=blu-ray
 
Multiple hard drive backups of the same data but in different machines. Set up to be completely automatic.
 
neil_g said:
here we go..

"£80 odd for the drive and £22 for 20 spindle 25gb BD-R.. initial cost might be high but that works out to £0.044/gb long term. compared to a 2tb drive @ £79 at £0.0395/gb... so not much in it.."

"its not too bad.. 1 25gb disk takes approx 1 hour to author at 4x write speed.

i just set it off when ive finished uploading and editing the set and go and have dinner."

taken from: http://www.talkphotography.co.uk/forums/showthread.php?t=269944&highlight=blu-ray
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hmm

So lets say NAS with RAID5 plus bluray and I should be more or less safe...
 
i keep copy in PC and because Ive lost al my photos TWICE!! am thinking about NAS...
 
Don't use hard drives for long term storage of important images, at least not without also using some other form of back up as well.
 
Steep said:
Don't use hard drives for long term storage of important images, at least not without also using some other form of back up as well.
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Why? I have the originals plus 2 copies on 2 different machines. So in order to lose them, I'd either have to have a fire (which would destroy any DVD/CDs) or I'd have to have 3 disks fail simultaneously across two different machines....

Writeable DVD/CDs degrade over time. I wouldn't like to trust them for data storage either.
 
arad85 said:
Why? I have the originals plus 2 copies on 2 different machines. So in order to lose them, I'd either have to have a fire (which would destroy any DVD/CDs) or I'd have to have 3 disks fail simultaneously across two different machines....

Writeable DVD/CDs degrade over time. I wouldn't like to trust them for data storage either.
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Yup, totally agree. I have three hard drives with backups (one off-site, so even a fire won't destroy all copies). Not only are hard drives more reliable than optical rewritable media, but it's a damn sight easier to find a particular image on a single hard drive than to figure out which one of 20 DVDs it's on.
 
hollis_f said:
one off-site, so even a fire won't destroy all copies
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Have to say, this is the only thing I really ought to do. I was going to buy a web hosting package and selectively backup (i.e. pics and really important files) to that too. I like automated though - means I don't need to do anything to keep the backups up to date.
 
hollis_f said:
Not only are hard drives more reliable than optical rewritable media,
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Says the guy complaining about unreliable hard drives with inherent faults on another thread...

I've personally seen quite a few hard drives fail in my time, I've yet to see a single cd or dvd that I've ever written fail through degradation. My point above was to not rely on one type of back up for important files, that's just plain common sense.
 
Steep said:
I've yet to see a single cd or dvd that I've ever written fail through degradation.
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I have...

Steep said:
My point above was to not rely on one type of back up for important files, that's just plain common sense.
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One type is fine, you just need more than one backup IMHO.
 
Thing is, you could buy 2 hard drives at the same time, both of the same make / model, backup onto one and then from one to the other and sometime down the road they both fail!!
 
Gigabyte said:
Thing is, you could buy 2 hard drives at the same time, both of the same make / model, backup onto one and then from one to the other and sometime down the road they both fail!!
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Yes, but the question is what is the chance that they both fail at exactly the same time? If they don't (and all the ones I've had start throwing errors before they finally die so you know when they are failing), you can replace the drive. Even when that is down, you still have the original data and the shadowed backup copy anyway.

At least with disks, you know when they are failing as opposed to CD/DVD where you only find out when you are trying to recover the data.
 
Steep said:
Says the guy complaining about unreliable hard drives with inherent faults on another thread...
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Er, you'll have to tell me which thread that is. Unless you're talking about the thread where I point out that Crucial sold their C300 SSD (which is not a hard drive) with firmware that they knew could cause it to fail irrevocably and catastrophically?
 
i have suffered from DVDs delaminating in the past, blu-ray isnt supposed to be vunerable to this due to construction differences.

to be honest as long as youve got multiple copies over whatever media with at least one copy off site you should be fine.
 
Gigabyte said:
Hard drive backup is probably the best.
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Yes - have to agree - I use NAS plus also a HDD eSATA/USB dock in which I currently 'plug-in' a 1TB drive,
which is then removed and taken off site (work) where it sits in my desk drawer.

John
 
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