They're ok for film. Completely useless for everything else.
Why nobody uses them:
-They're still expensive despite having been around for 8 years now with very little hope of that ever changing. Look at the cost of RW and DL discs! It's nuts.
-They're painfully slow
-Their storage capacity and price per GB is pitiful compared to external hard drives. And not much higher than similarly priced flash drives.
-Even after 8 years their hardware support in the industry is limited outside of dedicated BD players
-Scratches/dust can easily corrupt the data on them
ODD are dying in general. Everything they can do can now be done much more efficiently via networks, flash drives, and external HDDs (this would take an entire article to explain so you'll just have to take my word for it). Back in the day external HDDs were expensive and small by comparison, networks were too slow to deliver audio/video content, and flash drives were pathetically slow, small (capacity), and expensive. But all of those have dramatically improved since then while ODDs haven't improved much and thus have started to lag behind. With BD ODD have not gained any speed. They have gained more capacity but also more cost. Thus the cost per GB hasn't improved either. There is simply no advantage to using them anymore. BD will likely be the last generation semi-successful for film/game distribution and DVDs the last generation for general data storage and home video.
Depends on the drive speed. Generally it's around the same as a DVD (which is painfully slow, especially for random read).
Why nobody uses them:
-They're still expensive despite having been around for 8 years now with very little hope of that ever changing. Look at the cost of RW and DL discs! It's nuts.
-They're painfully slow
-Their storage capacity and price per GB is pitiful compared to external hard drives. And not much higher than similarly priced flash drives.
-Even after 8 years their hardware support in the industry is limited outside of dedicated BD players
-Scratches/dust can easily corrupt the data on them
ODD are dying in general. Everything they can do can now be done much more efficiently via networks, flash drives, and external HDDs (this would take an entire article to explain so you'll just have to take my word for it). Back in the day external HDDs were expensive and small by comparison, networks were too slow to deliver audio/video content, and flash drives were pathetically slow, small (capacity), and expensive. But all of those have dramatically improved since then while ODDs haven't improved much and thus have started to lag behind. With BD ODD have not gained any speed. They have gained more capacity but also more cost. Thus the cost per GB hasn't improved either. There is simply no advantage to using them anymore. BD will likely be the last generation semi-successful for film/game distribution and DVDs the last generation for general data storage and home video.
kinkinkijkin Wrote:Not yet. Since it's higher-capacity, and (I'm not actually sure about this one) higher-bandwidth
Depends on the drive speed. Generally it's around the same as a DVD (which is painfully slow, especially for random read).
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