Rant - we need 40 plus gigabyte optical rewritable media - and we need it now!

[episodic]

Crap, I've got a folder that is over 40 gigs I need to back up. Its gonna take 7-8 dvds. Why the heck can a tiny ipod store 40 gigs and a huge dvd can only store 4.7 (8 something if you could double layer which is ridiculously expensive)?!!!

Ok storage folks we need better rewritable optical media, and we need it now!

 

[gar3555]

get another hard drive...back it up to there

 

[episodic]

Originally posted by: gar3555
get another hard drive...back it up to there

I don't really trust a hard drive to back up a harddrive. Kinda asking for trouble. Sides, it should not cost 50$ to back up that data.

There should be cheap rewritable disks that size, now!

 

[amcdonald]

Originally posted by: gar3555
get another hard drive...back it up to there

Yup

 

[loup garou]

Will holographic storage do?

 

[gar3555]

Originally posted by: episodic

Originally posted by: gar3555
get another hard drive...back it up to there

I don't really trust a hard drive to back up a harddrive. Kinda asking for trouble. Sides, it should not cost 50$ to back up that data.

There should be cheap rewritable disks that size, now!

ok...:roll:
trying to help you out...and you're being ridiculous

 

[RaynorWolfcastle]

A hard drive is a cheap rewritable disk. And stop bitching about backing up you "back ups".

 

[JoeKing]

40 gigs? Whoa :Q

that's like almost as much porn as I have. I'm impressed :thumbsup:

 

[Fenixgoon]

blue ray discs are coming!

 

[vshah]

just like newton back in the day "ANTIGRAV, B1TCHES!!! WE NEED IT NOW!!!"

 

[MustISO]

I have at least 300GB of Pr0n, I hoping my drives last forever.
...and get a damn HD, you can get 120GB for cheap. Do the copy and store the HD.

 

[wiredspider]

An Ipod has a hard drive inside... You are comparing one hard drive to basically a prettier hard drive...

 

[episodic]

Why do people think I'm ridiculous? If a laptop harddrive only occupies 2.5 inches of space, why can't a disk the size of a dvd hold many many dozens of gigs of data?

 

[gar3555]

get a laptop hard drive, and put it in an ext enclosure...done..close the thread

 

[BooGiMaN]

i got one here on my desk although its only 30 Gb (15GB per side)

they tell me the 60GB will be available at the end of the year

 

[eelw]

You would rather trust all that data on a single optical disk over magnetic media that is enclosed in a metal case????

 

[blurredvision]

Originally posted by: episodic
Why do people think I'm ridiculous? If a laptop harddrive only occupies 2.5 inches of space, why can't a disk the size of a dvd hold many many dozens of gigs of data?

Because it doesn't work like that.

 

[thomsbrain]

the album my band is working on is up to ~50 GB and counting. not really any good way to back it up other than to other hard drives.

 

[amcdonald]

Originally posted by: thomsbrain
the album my band is working on is up to ~50 GB and counting. not really any good way to back it up other than to other hard drives.

Nice plug

 

[n7]

Blu-Ray baby!

We need it soon

 

[BooGiMaN]

Originally posted by: eelw
You would rather trust all that data on a single optical disk over magnetic media that is enclosed in a metal case????

the media im using comes in a hard case think of it as a dvd sized flopy disk, the drive and media are made for system backups and information archiving


i am testing it for a project im doing, but price tag isnt exactly user freindly....its blue ray technology and the drive is over 3 grand and the media about 60 bucks a pop

 

[episodic]

Originally posted by: eelw
You would rather trust all that data on a single optical disk over magnetic media that is enclosed in a metal case????

I guess cause I've never had a cd or dvd fail, but I have lost data on hard drives.

 

[0roo0roo]

yea it sucks hard. labeling your backup dvds is also a pain. need some kind of database backup software that scans the content of each dvdr into a search database and assigns the disc a number. that way you can just lookup the file you want to restore and go through your spindle of numbered discs. bleh... is there such a thing? looking through spindles = hell

 

[Rock Hydra]

Originally posted by: n7
Blu-Ray baby!

We need it soon

Yeah, but we could use it NOW. By the time it's released and made reasonable to get, it'll be time for at least double the ammount of space.

 

[PingSpike]

Buy a tape drive (expensive) or get an external harddrive. If some one could snap their fingers and make that tech available now, I'd still tell you to get an external harddrive because the drive alone would probably cost about $500 and the technology would still be buggy.