My notebook had an ODD, but I manually exchanged it for a HDD bay. I've no use for optical media whatsoever. However, there is still a point to it. It's cheap, cheap as chips. If you need to give someone a movie or like that, you do it on a disc. Thumb drives are still too expensive for that.But you could always have the friend return the thumb drive once he's put it on his drive.
My notebook had an ODD, but I manually exchanged it for a HDD bay. I've no use for optical media whatsoever. However, there is still a point to it. It's cheap, cheap as chips. If you need to give someone a movie or like that, you do it on a disc. Thumb drives are still too expensive for that.But you could always have the friend return the thumb drive once he's put it on his drive.
I remember when my first 1GB flash drive was $10. Now I can get 8GB for $8.
The only thing I use my optical drive for is driver installation.
My notebook had an ODD, but I manually exchanged it for a HDD bay. I've no use for optical media whatsoever. However, there is still a point to it. It's cheap, cheap as chips. If you need to give someone a movie or like that, you do it on a disc. Thumb drives are still too expensive for that.
If you don't have an optical drive how are you going to install Windows? Or watch a bluray? Or burn one for that matter...
Though I will say that I haven't bothered buying any floppy dicks drives for my past 2 builds.
If you don't have an optical drive how are you going to install Windows? Or watch a bluray? Or burn one for that matter...
Though I will say that I haven't bothered buying any floppy dicks drives for my past 2 builds.I can't tell if you're actually being serious...
Yes, but if you need to ship out 300 copies of something... with there being no chances of seeing them again~Online distribution. $0 in manufacturing costs :D
dvd disc is roughly 4cents per GB which still makes it the cheapest storage.
a 100pack dvd disc is commonly found at $20, which puts it at 20cents per disc (4.7GB).
in a sense its also a disposable storage, and easily a cheaper giveaway item than a thumbdrive by far.
on the other hand its also the hardest to store and also the shortest lived shelf-life amongst common storage media.
the burner isn't cheap though :Puh, what? I got myself a BDXL 20x super multi all format reader/burner for $100AU
Sony unveils next generation of “Archival” 300GB-1TB Blu-ray discs (http://www.vg247.com/2014/03/10/sony-unveils-next-generation-of-archival-300gb-1tb-blu-ray-discs/)http://www.gamespot.com/articles/sony-announces-next-gen-blu-ray-disc-can-store-up-to-1tb-of-data/1100-6418200/Quote[UPDATE] A Panasonic representative has clarified that the Archival Disc is specifically intended for professional purposes, not general consumer use.
Didn't click link yet, but is that just a double sided BDXL?no it isn't BDXL, available BDXL only amounts to 100GB/128GB sizes.
If it is, from what I heard there's nothing preventing general consumers purchasing them, instead they are 'intended' for archival and not general use. Especially since they're write once.
I wouldn't say that. Not as long as external hard drives keep failing or acting weird on me, anyway. Since 2005, I've had two external HDDs outright fail (~500 GB of data) and two act up to the point where they still work, but I fear for the data (~2.75 TB total). I can't recall any time I've tried and failed to retrieve data from a burned DVD. Now I just need to acquire, burn and store a lot more DVDs to make up for a few years of downloading, trusting HDDs, and not burning.
And both my laptop and desktop have DVD drives -- they serve for playing and installing old games, watching or taking screenshots from retail DVDs, and ripping DVDs should the need arise.
building one would be cheaper, and you can stack as much 4TB harddrives your case can manage.I wouldn't say that. Not as long as external hard drives keep failing or acting weird on me, anyway. Since 2005, I've had two external HDDs outright fail (~500 GB of data) and two act up to the point where they still work, but I fear for the data (~2.75 TB total). I can't recall any time I've tried and failed to retrieve data from a burned DVD. Now I just need to acquire, burn and store a lot more DVDs to make up for a few years of downloading, trusting HDDs, and not burning.
And both my laptop and desktop have DVD drives -- they serve for playing and installing old games, watching or taking screenshots from retail DVDs, and ripping DVDs should the need arise.
Considered a NAS with one of the higher RAIDs? Though that runs out of space as well, doubt you would get much more than 20 TB on a home version.
I have had DVD fail me more than hdd. Well with archival disc coming out I will probably acquire once they are available and at least archive older, especially licensed animes that I like on them. Then move on to stuff hard to acquire.you forgot the part that it wouldn't be openly available to the public any time soon, i'm betting its one of those things that you'd need a license or a legal company to acquire it.
[UPDATE] A Panasonic representative has clarified that the Archival Disc is specifically intended for professional purposes, not general consumer use.
"The development is specifically for professional archiving," a Panasonic spokesperson told PC World. "We are not currently considering optical discs for household consumer use."