Blu-Ray Burner

kromberg · #1 25th February 2011, 12:53 PM

Can anyone recommend a good Blu-Ray burner that works with F13 or F14?

kromberg · #2 27th February 2011, 01:18 PM

No one is using a blu-ray burner.....

giulix · #3 27th February 2011, 01:44 PM

What for? If you have a look at the cost of mass memory today, HDDs are cheaper even than DVDs, so why spend money in a BD burner? Better go for large arrays of 1TB disks...

smr54 · #4 27th February 2011, 02:12 PM

Blu-Ray burners are still expensive (as are the disks).

Here's something from an Ubuntu article, about a year old. Seems as if you can do blu-ray with Linux, but completely untested by me.

https://help.ubuntu.com/community/Re...BluRayAndHDDVD

Found by putting "blu-ray linux" (without quotes) into google.

kromberg · #5 27th February 2011, 02:42 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by giulix

What for? If you have a look at the cost of mass memory today, HDDs are cheaper even than DVDs, so why spend money in a BD burner? Better go for large arrays of 1TB disks...

Permanent long term backup. Hard drives are not good for that.

jpollard · #6 27th February 2011, 03:23 PM

They are good for about 10 years on the shelf. A BD is good for maybe 5 years before plastic degradation causes read errors. Keeping them in a stable, temperature stabilized environment can get them to last a good bit longer, but almost nobody has such.

Personally, BD is good for physical lightweight shipping of 50+GB of data, and more resilient to shocks.

eagleton · #7 27th February 2011, 04:24 PM

I have an LG bh10ls30 and it works fine for me.

droidhacker · #8 28th February 2011, 06:46 PM

There's nothing special to report about burning BDs. Same software as for DVDs should handle it just fine.