CentOS - Aug 2015 - new laptop: DVD or Blu-ray

W dniu 20.08.2015 o 13:52, Mauricio Tavares pisze:
> On Thu, Aug 20, 2015 at 7:34 AM, Marcin Trendota <moonwolf.rh at
gmail.com> wrote:
>> W dniu 20.08.2015 o 13:26, Mauricio Tavares pisze:
>>> On Aug 20, 2015 6:54 AM, "ken" <gebser at
mousecar.com> wrote:
>>>>
>>>> One of the build options for a laptop I'm looking at buying
is DVD vs
>>> Blu-Ray.  I've never used Blue-ray before, so is there some
compelling
>>> reason, as a Linux guy, to want to get Blu-ray?
>>>        First of all, is this going to be your desktop or a server?
If the
>>> later, can't see the point for blueray. One of the compelling
reasons
>>> against is that only movies use it. Second, it has dmr crap in it
that
>> I used to use Blu-Ray as backup device.
>       In that case, the concern about drm is null and void. That said,
> how did that work out for you? I thought about doing that because of
> the sheer capacity but my experience using DL DVDs for backup was not
> as good as the original claims. Retention was not good after a year or
> so, which led me to use hard drives instead with a slow rotation
> policy and keeping hardware to read it (poor man's futureproofing).
Well, retention was not an issue in my case (that were monthly backups,
we didn't need to keep old backups). But eventually capacity became a
problem. Recently we have switched to RDX.

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On Thu, August 20, 2015 7:01 am, Marcin Trendota wrote:
> W dniu 20.08.2015 o 13:52, Mauricio Tavares pisze:
>> On Thu, Aug 20, 2015 at 7:34 AM, Marcin Trendota <moonwolf.rh at
gmail.com>
>> wrote:
>>> W dniu 20.08.2015 o 13:26, Mauricio Tavares pisze:
>>>> On Aug 20, 2015 6:54 AM, "ken" <gebser at
mousecar.com> wrote:
>>>>>
>>>>> One of the build options for a laptop I'm looking at
buying is DVD vs
>>>> Blu-Ray.  I've never used Blue-ray before, so is there some
compelling
>>>> reason, as a Linux guy, to want to get Blu-ray?
>>>>        First of all, is this going to be your desktop or a
server? If
>>>> the
>>>> later, can't see the point for blueray. One of the
compelling reasons
>>>> against is that only movies use it. Second, it has dmr crap in
it that
>>> I used to use Blu-Ray as backup device.
>>       In that case, the concern about drm is null and void. That said,
>> how did that work out for you? I thought about doing that because of
>> the sheer capacity but my experience using DL DVDs for backup was not
>> as good as the original claims. Retention was not good after a year or
>> so, which led me to use hard drives instead with a slow rotation
>> policy and keeping hardware to read it (poor man's futureproofing).
>
> Well, retention was not an issue in my case (that were monthly backups,
> we didn't need to keep old backups). But eventually capacity became a
> problem. Recently we have switched to RDX.
>
Which RDX? This:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/RDX

?

Valeri

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Dnia czwartek, 20 sierpnia 2015 9:50:48 AM Valeri Galtsev pisze:
> > capacity became a problem. Recently we have switched to RDX.
> Which RDX? This:
> https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/RDX
> ?
This one: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/RDX_Technology

(:)

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