Alan Brown wrote (2016/03/17): > Caveat: BDXL is up to 120GB per disc (quad layer) and It _may_ be worth > investigating this format for backups, but bacula doesn't play nicely > with optical media. > > HVD development (6TB per disc) was abandoned in 2008. Ritek demonstrated > 250GB BDXL discs (10 layer) 8 years ago but they've never been marketed. > Ditto with Pioneer's 400GB BDXL format and the "1TB Blueray" disk is now > 4 years past proposed launch date. What's killed all these "smaller" > formats is cheap(ish) HDD/SSDs, cloud storage and the likes of Netflix. > That's despite even BDXL 120GB not being large enough capacity to hold a > complete 4k video title.
I think that two main killers for all these optical things for data storage are unbelief in reliability (or simply unreliability) and slooowness. -- Rudolf Cejka <cejkar at fit.vutbr.cz> http://www.fit.vutbr.cz/~cejkar Brno University of Technology, Faculty of Information Technology Bozetechova 2, 612 66 Brno, Czech Republic ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Transform Data into Opportunity. Accelerate data analysis in your applications with Intel Data Analytics Acceleration Library. Click to learn more. http://pubads.g.doubleclick.net/gampad/clk?id=278785231&iu=/4140 _______________________________________________ Bacula-users mailing list Bacula-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/bacula-users
