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BD is 5.3x higher capacity than DVD. Thus, BD's price has to be 5.3x higher than DVDs to equal the value. So 0.20c x 5.3 = $1.06. I have not seen BDs selling for that price; so DVDs are still better value. Including cost of the drive, as all PCs come with DVD burners for free.

Plus, I wouldnt risk placing 25gb of stuff on plastic. I as well dont use higher than 4gb cards, and still use CD-Rs as 2nd backup to DVDs. I bought 2 500gb hdds instead of 1TB for fear of failure. Cost comes out to $120 either way. One is at home, other in the safe box at the bank.
 
BD-R is supposed to be better for long term storage versus write once DVD media and certainly better than rewritable DVD media.
 
You're getting ripped off if those are your DVD prices. You can get archive-rated 4.7GB DVDs from Taiyo (JVC) in a 100disc spindle for $39 USD. Under a nickel a pop, BD is more expensive, buying in bulk spindle, you can get 50GB in 25disc spindle for $200USD that is Verbatim and rated for 40 years.

Unfortunately, JVC/Taiyo has yet to get into the long-term rated BD game. We've used Taoiyo at work for coming up on a decade in the biz of long-term archive storage with their CDs. BD is a bit young to have any idea how the media longevity is yet...it took 5 years or so of professional CD-R audio burners to find out the worst-possible-way of consumer burnable media longevity problems.
 
Skripka said:
You're getting ripped off if those are your DVD prices. You can get archive-rated 4.7GB DVDs from Taiyo (JVC) in a 100disc spindle for $39 USD. Under a nickel a pop, BD is more expensive, buying in bulk spindle, you can get 50GB in 25disc spindle for $200USD that is Verbatim and rated for 40 years.

Unfortunately, JVC/Taiyo has yet to get into the long-term rated BD game. We've used Taoiyo at work for coming up on a decade in the biz of long-term archive storage with their CDs. BD is a bit young to have any idea how the media longevity is yet...it took 5 years or so of professional CD-R audio burners to find out the worst-possible-way of consumer burnable media longevity problems.
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Your math is wrong, that would be 40 cents per disc. He is saying they are 20 cents a disc, which is a good price for Verbatim quality DVD+R or -R. The best deal on archival quality BD-R I have seen fall below $1.00 per disc. I have personally used these, as well as others in that thread. Great quality and great price. I suggest reading through that thread.

http://www.mediamegamall.com/smartblu-bluray-disc-25gb-branded-25pk-cakebox-sbr4br25-p-28554.html
http://club.myce.com/f142/smartblu-media-322979/
 
BD has better (more recent) error correction and is more resilient to damage. That said, if you are using it for backup make 2 copies of any backup you do. If you are only backing up 4GB at a time from old cards, make multiple copies of that data on the same disk, and make par2 files in addition. That would lessen the chance that any single damaged sector/track on the disc would take your data down.
 
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