windbane on 15 December 2008
| Grampy said: Don’t bother calling me a Blu-ray hater because I have two BD burners and several more players for work. I have begun to wonder if that was a mistake. The cost of hard disk space is falling much faster than BD. 1TB disk <$100 ($0.10/GB reusable - $0.20/GB in RAID 0) so it’s cheaper to store it than to put it on Blu-ray at about $0.24/GB. Standard DVD cost about $0.04/GB, DVD-DL about $0.11/GB. Unless the cost is brought down very quickly, BD may never see wide spread adoption for anything but movies. I am already finding increasing skepticism and resistance at professional conferences to the idea of it becoming a major data storage medium. |
hah, you are such a blu-ray hater! You bought your laptop without knowing it even had blu-ray.
Anyway, the cost of storing on a hard drive has always been cheaper than storing on optical media. The point of having it on a disc is an increase in portability and insurrance that it won't go away when your hard drive dies.
