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I like optical media for the same reasons you indicate. Write once and have reasonable expectation it will last for a good long time. I do wish Optical media wa
by smush 7y ago
I like optical media for the same reasons you indicate. Write once and have reasonable expectation it will last for a good long time. I do wish Optical media wasn't so stagnated as well. Write speeds could be improved by adding more laser heads to work in parallel on the disks, no reason for us to be stuck with a single head like vinyl had to for obvious reasons. That could increase disk R/W quite a bit and make it comparable to USB 2/3 but write once.
I'd love to get a holographic disk or heck an isolinear chip-shaped slab to write to because I like Star Trek.
- vel0city 7y agoWhen it comes to Blu-Ray read speeds, good drives will already outperform USB 2.0. 16x read speeds on Blu-Ray is 576Mbit, faster than USB 2.0's 480Mbit peak. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blu-ray#Drive_speeds https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blu-ray#Drive_speeds
- nayuki 7y agoI'm not so demanding when it comes to archival read/write speeds. Even if a drive writes 10 MB/s, it will crunch one terabyte in about a day. My gripe is that with small discs, you need to manually change discs and set up burns. I am more than willing to leave my computer on overnight to write to a 1 TB optical disc with no human intervention. And this action is only for cold storage; HDDs are bigger anyway and I would have the data in hot storage if I needed to browse or edit it.