Throw away your DVD +/-Rs

[Andy]

I heard that Blue Ray won the war. Toshiba are pulling out of the HDVD race.

I can't say it bothers me though. Downloaded video and web servers are all I seem to need most of the time. Without an HD TV I don't see what you need a HDVD for. Maybe games containing hours of video?

But it has always been a fascination to see how much data can be stored in a small physical space. However, discs still need to spin which is a disadvantage.

Some kind of cube would be better I think, with no moving parts. The DataCube^TM

[SensoVision]

haven't tracked closely what was happening on the HDVD market, hopefully BlueRay wouldn't be very expensive because of it's name and other companies would also offer devices with this technology.
Anyway just like with DVD which I've bought several years after everyone had it already and prices fall considerably, I'm not going to invest into new device.
Regarding for what it could be used, I think that it could be good for storing photo materials for example, as I got around 30gb of photographs done me stored on my HDD, and I still got not time to sort them out and burn

Some kind of cube would be better I think, with no moving parts. The DataCubeTM

I heard that IBM worked in this direction years ago, inventing some data storage device which doesn't have spinning paths, not sure what happened to this project.

[Andy]

http://forum.weblamp.net/index.php/topic,8058.msg38452/topicseen.html#new

Bubble Memory if I remember correctly. Not sure what happened to it.

DVD-like Discs should be fairly reliable since they are physically altered rather than storing magnetic charge.

p.s. I bought a pack of DVD-Rs the other day and they were cheaper than some CDR discs.

[SensoVision]

DVD-like Discs should be fairly reliable since they are physically altered rather than storing magnetic charge.

I should check some of my DVD-R written long ago, as not sure like with R media but with DVD-RW I've got very bad experience, after one month I wasn't able to read disk in several parts and it happened to me several times(with brand new DVDs) so I avoid to write anything important there.

p.s. I bought a pack of DVD-Rs the other day and they were cheaper than some CDR discs.

same situation is here, you can buy some DVD-R at half price of CD-R with brandname.

[mic_comte]

 What quantity of information can you store in a Blue Ray disk? Is it more reliable than the DVD/CD technology. Meaning, does it last longer? Because I see no point storing all you photos and videos on a disk if it is not readable 10 years after.

[SensoVision]

What quantity of information can you store in a Blue Ray disk? Is it more reliable than the DVD/CD technology. Meaning, does it last longer?

Till now I've only heard marketing info which of course claimed that it's better, didn't read any reviews about experience with it.

Because I see no point storing all you photos and videos on a disk if it is not readable 10 years after.

Indeed, I also don't like idea of storing everything in one place, I would rather use plain CDs in this case so if one would die I have less remorse for it.
Also regular re-writing old archives is good idea, which I'm going to use with my photo DVDs.

[donecweb]

Bubble Memory if I remember correctly. Not sure what happened to it.

The US Navy tested bubble memory and found that for long term service it was unreliable. However! they did use it for short term memory in their aircraft computers.

[SensoVision]

Thanks for info, Don!