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AlunD
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Danstevens
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.............for people who work for the government to lose even more data with on the move with   . Sorry, I'll get my coat but I just had to. On a more serious note, they would be pretty handy if they could be written to at any sort of speed. It takes a reasonable while to fill up a DVD or Blu-ray disk. You'd need a quick burner (and a lot of stuff) to fill one of those things. I don't think they are anywhere near ready for mass use yet but eventually, they could be useful.
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AlunD
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Looks around for JV  Yes I tend to agree with you 
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KRKux
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You wouldnt need HDDs, jsut keep the CD in the drive D:
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Electric_Wizard
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It would be comparatively slow writing though.
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TheHobgob
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Well that's fancy ain't it. Still by the time it comes out the entire principle of a disk will most likely be outdated.
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Agrajag
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I suppose they could be useful for backup - just depends on how much they cost compared to LTO and how long they last for...
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KRKux
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Yah, that is true _________________I had the last spam thread in the TMP.
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JJW009
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I must have 100 or more DVDs and CDs with my backups on. It would be nice if it all fitted on a couple of disks.
At the moment, I'm using hard drives because they take up less space!
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Coref
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You can already get that kind of size of tape, which is proven if slow technology. For home backups it's be great though.
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Agrajag
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Assuming 500GB native it would be somewhere between LTO3 and 4. But an optical disc is a lot more simple than a LTO tape so I would have thought would have been cheaper. I can imagine it would be easier to store ten thousand CD cases than ten thousand LTO tapes!
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brataccas
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are these available in blu ray? I have 100s of backups of all my memory photos, stuff i film etc, would love it all on just one disc _________________
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JJW009
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I don't remember posting in this thread! But then, it was 3 years ago _________________jonbwfc's law: "In any forum thread someone will, no matter what the subject, mention Firefly." When you're feeling too silly for x404, youRwired.net
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jonbwfc
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They obviously never amounted to much then....
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forquare1
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Today I regularly use: 2006 MacBook 2011 iMac 2011 Mac Mini iPhone 4 The MacBooks optical drive is fudged while the Mac Mini and iPhone don't have optical drives...
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