Fujitsu is still putting Blu-ray drives in laptops; and people in Japan still want them
Fujitsu is still putting Blu-ray drives in laptops; and people in Japan still want them
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Never had a BD drive in a laptop, went straight from a DVD/CD drive to no optical drives. Does Windows even support BD copyright protection these days?
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I've never had a BD anything. Unless the PS4 did them, but I'd never had needed to know.
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yes PS4 was bluray.
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I put one in my laptop over a decade ago just because I could. I didn’t ever get any actual use out of it. It was an utter waste of money but party because I didn’t know what software I needed to use it, which was due to me not knowing I needed proprietary software to properly use it to watch movies.
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Good job Fujitsu, optical media is the best.
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Where can I get one for my ThinkPad L440? It has an optical bay only occupied by a dummy.
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Look at your favourite online retailer. All SATA laptop drives are intercompatible.
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TBH I would consider one of these. I've been thinking about using discs for long-term backups, and I've also been planning to start buying music and stuff more instead of effectively renting from streaming services.
Most writable disks have a poor life. the only good long term backup option is lots of redundancy and regular check that they are all readable - recreating what isn't before you lose it
Yeah, gotta use ISO/IEC 18630 certified discs and burner to ensure longevity.
CDs are rated for 10–30 years,, Blurays for 50–80. YMMV with cheap low quality disks, of course.
As someone else mentioned, CDs, DVDs, and especially BDs are supposed to last quite a while. I'd obviously burn more than one though and check them occasionally (and probably throw most of it on encrypted cloud storage in case there's a fire or something).
https://www.tomshardware.com/news/pioneer-new-blu-ray-recorder-and-bdr-promise-100-years-lifespan
Wouldn't it better to buy a BD/DVD drive for desktop? This way you can rip movies/music and access them on any device.
I mean, I'd still have the physical collection then, which would just be sitting there picking up dust. Even with it ripped, I'd probably still want to use the disc sometimes. I also tend to displace things like CD drives if I don't use them for a while lol (I have a CD/DVD drive somewhere, but I have no idea where I put it), which makes the backup idea sort of problematic.
I've looked pretty extensively into this. My plan is to get a disk toaster and pick up some refurb drives, around 8tb or so. The cost of a good bluray burner is about $160, and each 100yr disc is $11 for 50gb. Meanwhile the toaster is $30, and HDDs are about $150 new for 8tb, less with refurbs. I just know that one coaster run of a bluray burn would send me off to a tirade. Less space, less cost, less risk of damage, and more likely to be useable in the future. Bonus for read speeds and rewrite ability.
I think if you've got a ton of data, that does make more sense. I personally don't think I have much that I think is super important though (at the least atm, it'd mostly be photos). The drives will likely die earlier though.