External USB Blu-Ray drives under Linux?

[Lennart Sorensen]

On Sun, Mar 20, 2011 at 11:12:47AM -0400, ted leslie wrote:
> bluray not reliable? so you need far more then 100year retention? what
> are you doing that needs that?
> I still have cd's from '88 that are good , and some that are totally
> screwed, but I believe a good disc like a panny BD
> could get 100years of life even in poor storage env. A 50gb BD will
> also be 0.50 in time (couple of years), but then they have
> 300gb ones on the way to (so have to buy a new drive), but BD is
> likely to be a standard for reading for a while, i.e.
> CD will probably have a production life of 40-50years, so i could see
> BD devices still sold in 2040+. (or at least will read BD, and 1tb BD
> or whatever as
> time goes on).

The lifespan of a stamped disc is not the same as the lifetime of a
recordable disc with dye in it.  So your 1988 CD is fine, but is a CD-R
of the same age fine?

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Len Sorensen
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