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Ok, got a Panasonic UJ-240 slim laptop Blu-ray drive and it's the first Blu-ray drive I've ever owned period so this is new territory for me. I've done a bunch of reading about the Blu-ray format (I got this primarily for use as a backup tool albeit I did buy a few Blu-rays at a pawn shop a few days ago just to make sure the drive works as expected). I grabbed a pack of cheapy Blu-ray blank discs at Fry's yesterday (some no-name brand called "TruSound" and according to OptiDriveControl they are manufactured by LG (the glitches in the image below were caused because I resized the ODC window, it's not coded very well for graphical issues and the speed test in the second image was a pressed Blu-ray, "Fantastic Four" the older version of the movie with Jessica Alba, not the 2015 epic failure reboot so I know the drive is working great since it's a 6x reader):
Anyway, I know from reading over at the MyCE forums (previously known as CDFreaks) that Panasonic blank media is pretty much the defacto best BD-R media you can get but, I can't afford $8+ for one single disc (which is how much those are at Fry's). The 10 pack of these "TruSound" discs was $8 so I don't mind that cost even if things don't go as planned. I'd love to have a big stack of Panasonic 25GB SL BD-R sitting here for backup purposes but that would be incredibly expensive in degrees I can't justify - the data I intend to back up is important, sure, but I could just get a hard drive or two I suppose. I'm just making sure I do get the data backed up in a variety of formats and locations which is generally considered to be the best backup strategy of all aka the "don't keep all your eggs in one basket" methodology.
So, I'm looking to use these strictly as optical data backup - I don't intend to use these for making actual Blu-ray "movie" discs, just for raw backup storage discs. I don't intend to max them out to the last possible bit as well, and I will be using a strategy that features PAR technology for creating error correction checksum sets so even if I end up having some damage to the disc, like a scratch or something, that I'll still be able to recover the data because of the PAR error correction which is pretty damned awesome stuff.
If anyone else out there uses BD-R media strictly for data backup purposes I'd like to ask what software you use to do the burning like Nero, ImgBurn, BurnAware, etc. Also, I read someplace (but I can't find the damned article now) that said something like Blu-ray BD-R media being similar to DVD-RAM and CD-RW in some respects where I can write data to the discs in sessions meaning I can add data to a disc whenever I want instead of having to set aside 20-24GB of data and burn it all at one single time.
If that's true that's a very positive thing that I'll make use of but as this is my first foray into Blu-ray (literally never owned any Blu-ray movies prior to 2 days ago) this is literally all new to me so I figured I'd ask my [H] breathren for some suggestions and tips.
Any info is appreciated, thanks.
Anyway, I know from reading over at the MyCE forums (previously known as CDFreaks) that Panasonic blank media is pretty much the defacto best BD-R media you can get but, I can't afford $8+ for one single disc (which is how much those are at Fry's). The 10 pack of these "TruSound" discs was $8 so I don't mind that cost even if things don't go as planned. I'd love to have a big stack of Panasonic 25GB SL BD-R sitting here for backup purposes but that would be incredibly expensive in degrees I can't justify - the data I intend to back up is important, sure, but I could just get a hard drive or two I suppose. I'm just making sure I do get the data backed up in a variety of formats and locations which is generally considered to be the best backup strategy of all aka the "don't keep all your eggs in one basket" methodology.
So, I'm looking to use these strictly as optical data backup - I don't intend to use these for making actual Blu-ray "movie" discs, just for raw backup storage discs. I don't intend to max them out to the last possible bit as well, and I will be using a strategy that features PAR technology for creating error correction checksum sets so even if I end up having some damage to the disc, like a scratch or something, that I'll still be able to recover the data because of the PAR error correction which is pretty damned awesome stuff.
If anyone else out there uses BD-R media strictly for data backup purposes I'd like to ask what software you use to do the burning like Nero, ImgBurn, BurnAware, etc. Also, I read someplace (but I can't find the damned article now) that said something like Blu-ray BD-R media being similar to DVD-RAM and CD-RW in some respects where I can write data to the discs in sessions meaning I can add data to a disc whenever I want instead of having to set aside 20-24GB of data and burn it all at one single time.
If that's true that's a very positive thing that I'll make use of but as this is my first foray into Blu-ray (literally never owned any Blu-ray movies prior to 2 days ago) this is literally all new to me so I figured I'd ask my [H] breathren for some suggestions and tips.
Any info is appreciated, thanks.
