Burned my first BD-R disc :)

[mikeymikec]

I bought a spindle of BD-R 25GB JVC discs not because I had a plan in mind for them, but as I've found before, sometimes having the thing handy helps inspire ideas to use that thing with.

I have a stack of various other DVD/CD recordables as I make occasional use of them (diversifying my backups for example), but I've felt a bit undecided about BR backups because my drive is the only BR drive in my vicinity, but I decided that now I've embraced BR/4k discs for buying films that I'm always going to have a BR drive from now on so what the hell.

Burning with k3b on Linux including verification time took pretty much an hour on the dot, with the disc speed being on average between 2.4x and 3.5x. It perturbed me initially when k3b announced that the write speed was going to be 12.3x (55MB/sec) but I suspect that's the maximum speed the drive claims to do I remember when DVD writing initially came into the mainstream and I scoffed at the notion that a hard drive of that time could sustain the ~22MB/sec throughout to achieve (IIRC) 16x DVD burn speed, and now I'm wondering if I loaded the data to burn onto my SSD (rather than its normal location being on my data HDD) whether I could have got a faster burn speed

 

[sdifox]

Welcome to 2 decades ago?

 

[mikeymikec]

Welcome to 2 decades ago?

You were burning BR discs two decades ago?

 

[sdifox]

You were burning BR discs two decades ago?

Blu-ray Disc recordable - Wikipedia

en.m.wikipedia.org

 

[mikeymikec]

Blu-ray Disc recordable - Wikipedia

en.m.wikipedia.org

I'll take that as a no then. According to my records I was burning my first DVDs in 2004.

Apparently in 2005 a BR writer PC drive was made with an IDE interface. I bet that cost an arm and a leg.

- edit - I originally responded with an article that suggested that the first PC BR writer drive was released in 2014 but in hindsight I doubted it and googled some more. I suspect that was when Pioneer released its first BR writer drive.

 

[esquared]

The first LG Blu ray burner came out in 2006.
They were expensive, $1,000 maybe? I always had a price point when I bought my CD burner, DVD burner and Blu ray burner. It was $300.00
Drop it below and I am buying.
So my first Blu ray burner I am guessing was two years after that LG Blu ray burnercame out, so I am saying I bought probably in 2008.

LG GBW-H10N review: LG GBW-H10N

The LG GBW-H10N is an easy-to-install internal optical drive. As well as being able to play Blu-ray movies, its main claim to fame is that it's the world's first 4x drive, meaning it can write up to 25GB of data to a Blu-ray Disc at 18MBps -- far quicker than the 4.5MBps achievable with 1x drives

www.cnet.com

 

[sdifox]

I'll take that as a no then. According to my records I was burning my first DVDs in 2004.

Apparently in 2005 a BR writer PC drive was made with an IDE interface. I bet that cost an arm and a leg.

- edit - I originally responded with an article that suggested that the first PC BR writer drive was released in 2014 but in hindsight I doubted it and googled some more. I suspect that was when Pioneer released its first BR writer drive.

I did burn one around release time as part of evaluation for the department xd

 

[Eug]

I was burning DVDs over 20 years ago, although some of it was with DVD-RAM. For BD-R, it was almost 15 years ago, but I've probably burned all of 5 BD-Rs in the last decade. I was burning them for backup storage purposes, but more recently I've just been using hard drives, and lately SSDs.

The problem with BD-R backup storage is nobody has BD drives anymore, and furthermore, the storage capacity is just way too little. BD-R is just too inconvenient. The world has moved on since then.

So, yeah, welcome to *almost* two decades ago.

And please remember that although hard drives and SSDs can fail over time, BD-Rs can rot too, especially if you don't buy top tier BD-R media which can be very expensive. I've encountered this with DVD-R media too. The Apple DVD-R media of that initial era was good, with good compatibility, reliability, and longevity, but at a high price. Some other brands were a noticeable step down in quality but at 1/3rd the cost. (Apple didn't make DVD-R, but rebranded top tier media.)

BTW, I store some of my important backups offsite in a safety deposit box at the bank. It turns out the box I got is not big enough to fit DVDs and BDs. It's big enough for 3.5" hard drives though, and SSDs of course.