Re: Archiving on optical media
Hi,
> My conclusion: invest in more recent hardware.
> https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blu-ray_Disc_recordable#Pricing
Those prices are slightly optimistic. But not too much.
> Tips to select a drive welcome.
Beware of "Combo" drives. Make sure the product description mentions
_write_ speed for BD-RE and BD-R, not only read speed for BD-ROM.
("Combo" drives are usually a bit cheaper than real BD burners.)
Buy from a seller who takes defective or wrongly chosen hardware back
without offering much resistance.
The quality of new drives varies much more individually than by the
brand or manufacturer. (Even 80 EUR are not enough to pay for a
convincing quality management in the factory.)
If my ASUS BW-16D1HT would die, i would by a new one of the same model.
It is the only one which writes more than 128 sessions to a single BD-R.
Another good drive which i have and is still at sale is LG BH16NS40.
I would not buy a new Pioneer BDR-S09 in the next years because mine
creates cracks on contemporary Verbatim BD-RE media after reading
them a dozen times. The cracks start at the inner hole and eventually
reach the recording area which then causes read failure.
I did not observe this damage with RITEK BD-RE, which are sold by about
any brand except Verbatim, or with older Verbatim BD-RE media.
(I'd blame the problem on the 10x read speed of the drive, its hard
grip on the medium, and the little engraved letters at the inner rim
of the modern Verbatim BD-RE. Forcing the drive to read more slowly
protects the victim media. It does not react on speed setting commands
but only slows down when i let the reader program wait between read
operations.)
I have no experience with slim BD drives which are sold in USB enclosures.
My USB attached drives are full-height "internal" drives which i put
into USB boxes which cost nearly as much as the drives.
("Man goennt sich ja sonst nichts." = I hardly grant myself anything else.)
Have a nice day :)
Thomas
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