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INDEXStorage Solutions. For Filmmakers (you know you all worry about it!)
9 years, 1 month ago - Jenny Collins
Can any one give an opinion on burning to Mdisk Bluray's over external drives or the cloud?
At present, I keep using external drives connected via a dock and replace when mirrored and full.
This has worked well, but I'm worried (at 3am) that ill wake up and find they have exploded or failed on me.
A friend of mine recomended backing up to large capacity Mdisk Blueray's as a permanent solution. Id like to know what mac users think.
Any thoughts most welcome.
Jenny
Film maker
Liverpool
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9 years, 1 month ago - Andrew Morgan
Honestly, I'd rather back up to duplicate hard disks (with checksum verification) than to optical media. Yes, the M-DISCs look pretty durable but even today Blu-ray is a niche storage format (how many computers come with a Blu-ray drive?). 4k/8k will no doubt extend the life of the medium for a while but games and film are moving to 'the cloud' (*spit*) and optical media is steadily losing its relevance. USB hard disks will be easily readable for decades to come and some enterprise-class drives have 10 year+ warranties.
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9 years, 1 month ago - Jenny Collins
I almost hate to agree with you Andrew. Thanks for getting back to me. I think you are right. Lets hope the price of storage starts to drop a little...in our life time!
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9 years, 1 month ago - Andrew Morgan
Having paid hundreds of pounds for a 20 MB hard disk for my Amiga way back when, I think we're doing pretty good on the price/storage ratio :D
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9 years, 1 month ago - Jenny Collins
Fair play! but still!
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