External USB Blu-Ray drives under Linux?

[Lennart Sorensen]

On Sat, Mar 19, 2011 at 09:03:53AM -0400, William Park wrote:
> I'm sure you did the math... but, isn't 3TB harddisk cheaper?  You get
> those external dock, and swap the harddisk like you currently do with
> DVD.

Much.  Optical media is simply too expensive these days compared to
megnetic disks.

$2 for a 25GB blueray disc in bulk.  Read-only.  Rewritable ups the price
to about $15 per 25GB disc.

2TB WD green is $80.  So at 80 times the size of a blueray disc, it costs
40 times as much and is much simpler to use, faster too, and works with
any OS and is rewritable.

That's assuming the blueray drive is free, which of course it isn't,
although it isn't that expensive either.

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