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I do understand that, but as far as storing photographic images can we not just pick either or is it a battle of the Titans and one will lose out at the end, I have getting on for 200GB of images and I must do something soon. I do regular back-ups but - hey hard drives fail !!
From the recent announcement that Warner would be going Blu-ray exclusive. The first week of January, before Warner made their announcement, there was a nearly 50-50 split between Blu-ray and HD DVD standalone players. The following week, after the announcement, Blu-ray players grabbed 93% of the market.
On the other hand HD-DVD is backed by Universal Studios and Paramount.
Last August, Paramount and DreamWorks announced they were completely dropping support for Blu-Ray. Since those two companies account for most of the major films, it suggests the battle is far from over....
Going back to the original question, with a 700gb HDD retailing for under £100 have you considered going that route? I use HDDto backup all my images and another HD to backup the backup. I trust optical disks less than HDD.
Ian
Get a RAID disc array - you can get a 500Gig mirrored system for under £200 now.
Just plugs into the firewire/USB, install the RAID software and bob's your uncle...
Alternatively, the same box can be a 1TB system with no mirroring
The time/space needed to back up stuff on DVD, which is proving to be an unreliable medium, is not worth the effort.
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