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Me, with a 200 Terrabyte usb drive, wondering why this is an issue.
How often do you lend your drives to your friends? A cheap way to send big files without internet connection was paramount for sharing information.
A 200TB USB drive doesn't exist. What are you talking about?
Not going to put words in OP's mouth, and it's entirely possible they're either exaggerating, talking about a RAID array, or richer than God,
but the only place I know of to buy flash drives that big is Wish.com
whoooooooosh
I use BD-R for archival storage of important files. They're cheaper and easier than tape as well as small. I burn them in triplicate and throw them in the same case and as long as the same 3 bits don't corrupt I can recover. The shelf life on a blue ray sealed and stored well is a few decades which is better than most other media.
I understand that from a business perspective, but I'm having a hard time rationalizing it for personal use.
I guess, if you're doing a lot of video editing and you want to preserve a large personal library? Idk.
It's mostly family photos and videos. I've become the de facto family digital archivist. Some digital copies of important phyiscal records. When you convert files to lossless/uncompressed formats suitable for long term storage they get large really quickly.
Where are you buying your Blu-rays? Every time I've looked into burnable BD-Rs they've been more expensive per gigabyte than a 3.5" SATA hard drive (which has the bonus of better data longevity and being rewritable).
Bluray disk cost 25$ for 50gb and usb flash drive cost 5$ for 64gb
The 25GB disks are like 10¢.
Where? I see only 30$ for 5pack of 25gb bd-r
I'm not sure what country you're in, but have you tried Amazon? I found Verbatim 50 packs of 25GB for $40 and Ridata (usually good quality discs) for $28. If you want small amounts there's various 5 packs for less than $10.
Damn, a 50gb blu ray costs 2€ in my country.
