Blu-Ray data Storage Questions

[kt515]

Forum Questions
I am working on a way to switch my company's long term storage from paper to blu-ray. I have several questions and concerns and I am not an expert at blu-ray. Please any personal experience, knowledge or any insight will be greatly appreciated.

1.) What are the benefits to having the blu-ray drive internal as opposed to external? Does external BD burners function at a level not as high as internal drives?

2.) Will a high powered CAD station be meet the requirements for a Blu ray burner to be used on the computer?

3.) If only new data is being added to a BD-RE disc (no information is being recorded over) will the disc wear out and effect the data?

4.) Is there a way to lock the data on a BD-RE disc after the final burning has been made so no data can be altered or deleted (so data can only be read) ?

5.) Is there a way to have a time key that cannot be altered for data that is burned onto the disc (authentication) ?

6.) Once I have filled a 25 GB disc and I want to make a duplicate of it- What is the best way to do this with only having one blu-ray burner (for data storage reasons there needs to be two copies- one on site one off site)

 

[nitrobass24]

1) you dont have something else sitting on your desk, and dont have something else taking up USB ports.
2)Yes
3)I dunno
4)Yes, I believe its called finalization...you can choose this as an option before your burn.
5)You could use encryption on the files themselves.
6)Well if you have one burner, when you make a disc, just make two copies.