Need advice on reliable bluray burner

[johnspack]

I'm now on number 8 dvd burner in just 2 years. My last one, a sony optiarc made it through 15 dl dvd discs before it died. I really count on my backups, and am tired of going back through the last few discs to see if they actually burned ok (some haven't after a drive death). I thinking at around 100 bucks, bluray burners are probably still made with half decent quality parts, and may last a bit longer. Not to mention I pay $20 for 15 dls and can get 10 4x blurays for $20 as well. That's 120gbs dl dvd vs 250gbs bluray. Time to think bluray for storage???

 

[TheLaughingMan]

No. Time to think external HDD or no local storage backup. DVD and blu-ray backups are clumsy and require an ongoing expense. You can take the money you are wasting on DVD's and drives and simply pay a service to hold backups for you online. Set you system to do weekly, bi-weekly or whatever uploads like you do with a virus scanner.

Or you can just buy/build an external drive large enough to hold your back. From your system specs you are using 1 drive in your system for backups already, so I don't get the need for a second set, but its you stuff. An externall HDD would be a one time payment of less than a Blu-ray burner.

I am not sure what is going on with your drives. My NEC DVD burner has lasted almost 5 years. How many discs a week do you burn?

 

[Goodman]

I'm now on number 8 dvd burner in just 2 years. My last one, a sony optiarc made it through 15 dl dvd discs before it died. I really count on my backups, and am tired of going back through the last few discs to see if they actually burned ok (some haven't after a drive death). I thinking at around 100 bucks, bluray burners are probably still made with half decent quality parts, and may last a bit longer. Not to mention I pay $20 for 15 dls and can get 10 4x blurays for $20 as well. That's 120gbs dl dvd vs 250gbs bluray. Time to think bluray for storage???

8 DVD burner in 2 years ever tried LG?

As for Blu-ray i am not sure but i guess i would pick up LG...

CD/DVD or Blu-ray is not the best way for backup's often those CD\DVD will lost data after a only a year or two if not sooner if you buy cheap blinks , you would be lucky to have a backup DVD that will last 4-5 years...

As for backup's , HDD's are cheap now so buy two big 1 or 2TB's HDD & run them in Raid1 best backup solution so far until we get something better in the near future

 

[johnspack]

My newest burner is LG. Yes I've used them before. I have several 100s of gigs of backups in discs. I can backup up to 20gbs per week. But this optiarc went out after only 15 dl dvds, I'm getting tired of throwing out dvd drives and discs. In case you're wondering, I've gone through LG, Samsung, Sony, Pioneer, gawd i forget the others, if you can mention it, I've probably had it, but I've killed them all. I just figure if I go with a bluray writer, it'll just last a bit longer. I need to backup data, and safely, and just don't feel dvd burners do that reliably any more.

 

[micropage7]

coz blueray still aint used many so the price would be higher than other
i agree you could consider external hdd for backup beside disc based backup
i dont use blueray. but so far that come in mymind is lg or lite on.

 

[n-ster]

An external Hard drive with e-sata or something like that may be useful... if Internal backup suffices, 2 HDDs in RAID 1 or even more in RAID 5 etc etc?

I do understand the security of DVDs, but at some point it is not worth it anymore. If you tell us what kind of data, and how much you access your backups and any other detail, we could help you better

 

[Swamp Monster]

I've had similar problems with DVD burners, but not as much as you. I have ASUS, NEC,2x TEAC died in 2 years, but i don't burn as much DVD's also. About 3-4 DVD's a week. All those brands I considered good, now I have Pioneer and it works well, except that I had to update firmware for it to work as expected. I agree with others that it's better to buy external HDD for backup.

 

[johnspack]

Yeah, forgot I toasted a few lite ons as well. I access my data backups often, and I need to backup, as I can wipe out my oses frequently. I'm just seeing bluray backup as being fairly cheap now compared to dl dvd. So I need to know what 4x $100 range bluray writer is fairly reliable. I've bought my last dvd burner, not going to throw any more out.

 

[jamesrt2004]

my mate uses the cheap lg burner as a BD burner... works really well he burns 20+ BD's a week (movies) and it's kicking strong after a year

 

[Frick]

my mate uses the cheap lg burner as a BD burner... works really well he burns 20+ BD's a week (movies) and it's kicking strong after a year

You have a model name on it?

 

[n-ster]

Bluray is also faster

 

[Thrackan]

20 GB a week is just over a TB a year... Instead of wrecking discs and optical drives, I would vote for a NAS with 2x2TB mirrored. That will take almost 2 years of backups, mirroring it will keep your backups safe in case of HDD failure, it's faster to write, faster to access and doesn't cost much.
You don't need any expensive NAS as long as it's just for backing up.

 

[n-ster]

20 GB a week is just over a TB a year... Instead of wrecking discs and optical drives, I would vote for a NAS with 2x2TB mirrored. That will take almost 2 years of backups, mirroring it will keep your backups safe in case of HDD failure, it's faster to write, faster to access and doesn't cost much.
You don't need any expensive NAS as long as it's just for backing up.

I'm in favor of something of the sort

 

[BarbaricSoul]

Been using my HP drive for the past 2 1/2 to 3 years. No issues so far. This is the drive-

HP Black 24X DVD+R 8X DVD+RW 12X DVD+R DL 24X DVD-...

 

[CJCerny]

I'm still not understanding why you would want to backup to Blu ray when you can get a 2TB external SATA drive for like $89. Doesn't make any sense. Why don't you want to back up to hard drive?

 

[95Viper]

I sorta agree with just about everyone's opinion, about back-up to HDDs.
If you don't wanna go with NAS or similar...
How about getting an external/internal (usb 3.0 or eSATA)dock, backup up your stuff to drives (HDD or whatever ones) and you can swap them at your leisure. Read and write over & over, replace data when you need to.

I still don't understand what is bricking that many burners though.
I have only one bricked in ten plus years and that was my fault(cross flashing fail).
I use Samsung, HP, LG, and a couple of others, the only problem I ever have is the lens needs cleaning... about, every year or two.
I get dust or a film over the lens; I can, usually, tell 'cause they will start getting read/write errors.

 

[AsRock]

Try TEAC made like a brick and tend to make much less noise but cost more as they use metel and not all this plastic crap..

 

[assaulter_99]

6 Years / thousands of dvds and counting on my samsung. As long as I want it to die (cos its the only IDE stuff in my rig, that big cable is an eye-sore) it fights on.

 

[Goodman]

Go with one big HDD or 2 of them in Raid1 or single doesn't matter much but don't use blank CD\DVD or Blu-ray as backup...

I backup all my files , data , games , etc.. on HDD's for the last 5 years , i rarely use my DVD burner & when my HDD is coming near full i just buy a bigger one & transfer everything to the new one

As i said before if it is really important files then use 2 HDD's in raid1 it's better safer & lots cheaper in the long run