Alright so I’m both a physical media freak and a data hoarder, and I generally want to get into making my own torrents of very, very niche movies and TV shows. Trouble is, one BD is very flimsy and data can be even flimsier. I want to duplicate my BluRays and burn them onto other BluRay discs but I’ve heard that this generally makes the duplicate unreadable because of copy protection.
Is there any specific guide out there that does this or teaches it? I’m not really planning on becoming a bootlegger but a sneakernet of 50-100 disks in boxes is a hell of a lot less startup cost than LTO or even HDDs
Do you mean external drives?
Movies don’t need much speed at all. And HDDs have much better cost/GB than SSDs
REMUX files are around 50GB on average. SSDs are portable, don’t destroy themselves if you move them when in use, and don’t require external power.
If you care about local data preservation and you’re storing remuxes you should probably be storing them on a nas, or really just on a raid array. This allows for error correction due to the parity stripes and everything, and provided tolerance for drive failure.
If you were really serious about it, you’d want a mirrored nas offsite, or you’d push encrypted backups to cloud storage or something. But if you care about storing data as long term as possible you absolutely should not be storing the stuff on a single ssd or external drive or anything.
Three copies (a raid mirror and a backup counts), two types of media (drive and tape), one off-site (where it won’t be affected by fire, flood, tornado, earthquake).
A cloud backup gets you all but the local mirror in one go.
Also, it doesn’t count as a backup until you’ve tested a restore and verified it works.
File size doesn’t matter.
Both are portable and wouldn’t be moved while in use.
And yes, you do need a second cord to power a HDD.
But they’re still way Cheeper per GB, and potentially way bigger per drive than SSDs.
I have a HDD dock and 3 HDDs I use for backups every month. They work great as portable mass storage.