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Sony will cut around 250 jobs from the recordable media business manufacturing hub and will gradually cease production of optical discs, including Blu-ray discs. (mainichi.jp)

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[–] [email protected] 2 points 4 months ago (2 children)

Blu-rays do not actually take up this much space: On a 1TB drive you can store about 10-12 4K movies. You need a backup and you need a second drive for your Raid setup. This takes up quiet a lot of space too.

Besides that: storing the movies on a Raid system is a lot more expensive. If I'd rip all of my blu-rays to a digital copy, I'd need like 12 TB of storage. In a raid setup with backup, that's quiet expensive!

[–] [email protected] 3 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago) (1 children)

I meant physical size, not data size. With one computer with multiple 24TB drives, you can store hundreds or thousands of Blu-rays. To have that amount of physical Blu-rays, you would need a massive shelf - or more likely, multiple massive shelves.

True, RAID is more expensive, but it also ensures your data will keep working reliably - and it's much harder to lose than a small disc. Doubly when you throw backups into the mix.

[–] sugar_in_your_tea 0 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago) (1 children)

It's not that big, the cases are much smaller than DVD cases. Each case is 12-13mm wide, so on a typical shelf, you could fit >60. You can easily make them two or three deep, depending on your shelf.

I just stick them in a box after ripping them to my HDDs.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago) (1 children)

Sure, but with a full-sized PC tower, you could reasonably fit thousands of Blu-rays. The physical size difference is pretty massive in that comparison.

[–] sugar_in_your_tea 1 points 4 months ago

Sure. I'm just saying storage doesn't need to be overly burdensome. I just toss mine in a box and stick it in a closet. And if the drives die, you have the disks.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 4 months ago

Modern hard drives come in 20 TB or larger. 4K movies don't need to be anywhere near that big either with modern compression technology.