Average Lifetime of Blu Rays?

[EthenHunt]

Hi All,

Have seen DVDs dying out after few years. What is the average lifetime of Blu Ray Disks? Is it worth buying Blu Rays for movies rather than saving it in HDD?

 

[arvindrao15]

Well there is no such time period that you can say for Blu ray's. If you care to save some data for long years then I guess print is the best method yet.

 

[ranojoy]

I think I've read somewhere that its supposed to be 100 years. Unfortunately, since no BD has been around for that long, there's no way to verify that claim !

On the other hand, I've been buying CDs since 1995 (have about 200 odd, excluding CD-Rs) and haven't yet had a case of a CD skipping, although some of them do have light scratches now.

The hard coating of a BD is supposed to be much better than that of a CD or even a DVD, so I guess by BD collection will probably outlast me .....

 

[haisaikat]

I have moviemart.in subscription for blu ray disc. I did find two BDs so far (licensed copies of original) that had severe playback issues (stuck scenes, hang) due to scratch and I do not think any one of them were burnt less than a year back. So mishandling in my opinion affects CD abd BD similarly

 

[venkatcr]

I too rent from moviemart.
Which titles gave you problem? Recently I tried Crank-2. It didn't play at all while Brooklyn's Finest skipped throughout the whole movie. Can my bd player be at fault? Most other titles play perfectly.

Unless you have the same issue repeating with all discs, the issue will never be with the player.

All discs (CD, Blu-ray or DVD) have to be maintained well. I tried a few DVDs from a local rental shop and gave up after a few attempts. I maintain my own DVDs, CDs, and Blu-rays now. If a disc is scratched lightly it may not matter. If there are deep scratches, it is best to get a replacement.

Cheers

 

[rbalagopalan]

Maintaining / handling the disks properly is the only way to have them last long. Even in long stored disks i found white dots (kind of fungus which is most common in tropical humid atmosphere) leaving transparent spots.

I started ripping / ISO imaging the titles in my 8TB Raid (effectively 6.73 TB) and in 4 bay 2TB X 4 = 8TB enclosure. Important collections in Raid balance in ordinary bay. Now planning to upgrade to 12 TB Raid.

Even HDDs are prone for failures that is why I do give my collections in all my known circles so that when the night mare strikes I can have maximum back. I hope
SSDs are the best and less prone for crashing and I read an article that they comfortably out live the owner without any issue. It has to become more commercially viable and affordable at price point.

In general my suggestion would be do not lend your Cd, DVD, BD and HDDs to any body until unless you are cock sure of their handling and their attitude towards others items.

Thanks.

 

[haisaikat]

I too rent from moviemart.
Which titles gave you problem? Recently I tried Crank-2. It didn't play at all while Brooklyn's Finest skipped throughout the whole movie. Can my bd player be at fault? Most other titles play perfectly.

It was the title Doom but this does not mean that your Doom (if you rent) will also have same problem since they do have multiple copies of same movie.

 

[haisaikat]

I read an article that they comfortably out live the owner without any issue.

There is a catch, SSDs have a fixed life in terms of the number of Program-Erase (P/E) cycles which is nothing but how many times a particular block can be re-written before the reliability starts deteriorating. Commercial SSDs that are consumer grade and we usually buy have this around 3000 to 5000 however enterprise grade SSDs which are even costlier usually have this value around 100000. So whether to use SSD or not will depend on our data storage habbit. If it is store and forget or regular file transfer like downloads, SSDs are overkill and fast degrading respectively. However for areas like caching or fast boot up / load times it is best suited. Oracle's recent Exadata hardware platform for Databases utilizes SSDs rigorously for caching, just FYIP