Amazon has
50-Pack Spindle Verbatim BD-R 25GB 16X Blu-ray Recordable Media Disc on sale for
$34.43.
Shipping is free with Prime or on $35+ orders.
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Features:- 50 high-grade non-rewritable BD-R discs with a one hundred year archival life and OEM drive certified
- Verbatim Blu-ray discs are treated with a super hard coat to prevent scratches, resist fingerprints and reduce dust build-up
- Single-layer Blu-ray discs offers up to 25GB of storage space to back-up your video, music, photos and can work on any writers up to 16X
- Compatible with the latest Blu-ray hardware including Sony, Pioneer, Panasonic, Dell, Lenovo, HP, and LG
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But really, who the actual **** is going to see this and say, hey I need to buy a burner so I can jump on this? Absolutely no one. This is for those of us who use BD-Rs currently *FOR WHATEVER REASON*.
For those curious, uses for this are largely DV, piracy, or law-firm based (DV: here's a copy of your wedding, piracy: send compressed tv shows /movies to parents/people with readers or for SUPER LONG STORAGE/copy smaller 1080p BR movies, law firms: send client data/police interviews to expert witnesses) which is why the higher size discs aren't readily / affordably available for consumers in the US (BDXL discs are up to 128GB per disc and are quite pricey in the US, much less so in Japan , and most modern burners / readers support them ala the LG WH14NS40.) If you want more space and have a BD burner that supports them the best current deal on the XL media that I've noticed in the us is the 100GB versions for ~$6.50 per @ amazon ( https://www.amazon.com/Verbatim-1...00POY826G/ ) In japan it's closer to $3 per.
This is a pretty standard price for BD-R media, but usually for this price you end up going to plexmedia or ridata at a much lower claimed writable speed.
Thanks for coming to my ted talk
This is why Sony makes 5.5 TB discs that they refuse to sell to the public. Called ODS. Credit card companies back up all transactions onto them.
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Behind the scenes, Sony is still supporting commercial customers while they wait out Folio. If Folio can ship a 1TB BD rival in 2028, Sony may resume ODS to prevent FDs from replacing BD for consumers.
As for the reason capacity hasn't grown: you have a huge issue with positioner accuracy. A hard disk uses the same hardware to position the head every time, any discrepancies will be consistent. Any sort of removable storage system has to somehow ensure that it's head or equivalent is in exactly the same position when put in another drive. And you have to ensure the media is in exactly the same place, or in some fashion compensate for it being ever so slightly out of position.
These factors add up to removable media never having density anywhere near what fixed media can do. We even have an example from the past that really shows the difference: Zip drives. They were basically beefed-up floppy disks with extra stuff on the disk (I forget the details by now) that was created by the factory and allowed the head to exactly follow the track and thus allowed the tracks to be packed a lot more closely together. Or consider hard drives: open one outside a clean room and you probably ruin it--because the gap between head and platter is less than the size of a lot of dust. Removable media must be able to cope with dust. Closer head = smaller data point = more information density.
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10Gbps usb required sony manual is about it.
One hickup and you've coastered a $200 disc lol
Cloud storage would be way better due to data redundancy and off-site location.
Who uses these discs? Photographers, people backing up scans of family photos to spread around to family in case of a fire or other disaster.
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