[mythtv-users] Anyone archiving to Blu-Ray Disks?

[Brian Wood]

On Thursday, July 08, 2010 07:15:27 am Adam Stylinski wrote:
> On Thu, Jul 8, 2010 at 9:07 AM, John Drescher <drescherjm at gmail.com> wrote:
> > On Thu, Jul 8, 2010 at 8:58 AM, Brian Wood <beww at beww.org> wrote:
> > > On Wednesday, July 07, 2010 10:28:38 pm Nick Rout wrote:
> > >> On Thu, Jul 8, 2010 at 3:54 PM, John Drescher <drescherjm at gmail.com>
> > 
> > wrote:
> > >> >> Maybe 1st calculate the cost of storage per GB and compare that to
> > >> >> hard-disk.
> > >> > 
> > >> > That is a big problem. 2TB hard drives can be had for $110 now which
> > >> > is way way cheaper per GB than blue ray will be for a long long
> > >> > time.
> > > 
> > > I assume you are talking about the cost of the media, which I grant is
> > 
> > very high right now.
> > 
> > > But, I recall paying over $4 for a single blank CD-R, which I could
> > > burn
> > 
> > at a blazing 1X. My drive could burn at 2X, but
> > 
> > > media that would allow that cost even more. Today I can buy 50 blanks
> > > for
> > 
> > that same $4, and they can be burned at 52X.
> > 
> > 
> > After posting I saw a couple of $3 BD-R disks on newegg. They have a
> > caution about what drives support them but this may reduce the cost.
> > 
> > Actually your goal for a playable BD from several mythtv recordings
> > would be something I am interested in anyways..
> > 
> > John

> 
> I don't quite understand why this should be an issue.  BD-Rs just use UDF,
> do they not?  He's asking if you can archive onto Blurays with mytharchive,
> which shouldn't be an issue (albeit you can only play it on another mythtv
> system).  If you're just recording the data+metadata to the BD-R, then
> what's the problem?

My ultimate goal is to create a BR disk from multiple Myth recordings that could be played on a consumer BR player. More 
people have BR players than have Myth systems.

My secondary goal is to be able to copy off recordings from my hard drives, to free up space there. That would seem to be 
easy, the cost of media being the limiting factor.

The problem is I have close to 10 TB of HDD storage, and I don't really want to replace some of the 1TB drives with 1.5 or 
2.0 TB units, nor do I want to add the capacity for more drives, that would mean more hardware, more heat and power, and 
more space, and cost more than a lot of BR blanks, even today.

Drives are cheap, but the infrastructure to use them is still relatively high. Once all the drives you have the capacity 
to spin are used, you need more hardware (essentially computers) to add more.

USB drive cases are relatively cheap, but performance stinks, and most of them need a wall wart, take up space, generate 
heat and are a PIA in general.