Re: new laptop: DVD or Blu-ray

[Elimar Riesebieter <riesebie@lxtec.de>]

* ken <gebser@mousecar.com> [2015-08-20 06:53 -0400]:

> One of the build options for a laptop I'm looking at buying is DVD vs
> Blu-Ray.  I've never used Blue-ray before, so is there some compelling
> reason, as a Linux guy, to want to get Blu-ray?

Isn't a second hd in the CD-tray a better option? You have the
choice to configure:

Raid or
2nd data store or
install another os or
create a video pool or
copy whatever you want to boot on it or
use it just as a backup medium or
install as much as the capa admits ISO-Images on it or
....

Elimar 

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