Jim wrote:
On 05/01/2019 17:48, Plasspec wrote:
I was doing what you are talking about until a year ago. Reason I
quit was I went through 3 differnet drives within 4 years. Different
brands and not the low rated ones, and using different media brands.
All would work great for about 11 months and then start burning
coasters 2 out of 10, and get quickly worse. My opinion is that the
tech never fully matured enough. Oh well.

The one redaeming thing was I could use the discs in my bluray player
hooked to the TV and watch downloaded videos on the 50" screen in the
front room.

You should consider doing as I do now; get a USB HDD dock (actually I
have a swap tray on my computer) and look on craigslist or offerup or
even local thrift stores for used harddrives. I see 500gb ones for
very cheap (~$20) quite often. I always check the SMART stuff before
use, and have several that are many years old and still work fine when
I plug them back in.
Oh dear this thread is not going the way i wanted.
I have read elsewhere about problems like this so may stay with DVD for
a little while longer and look at HDD in about 6 months when my new
build will start

I don't think anyone here wants to spoil your fun.

I buy tech goods here for their "toy" value, and I don't
want to deprive you of that opportunity. If you had some
critical function for this stuff though, I want to set your
level of expectations accordingly.

But if you just want to screw around with 100GB recording
media, have at it. You might still be able to buy a few XL
discs.

I have a 250MB ZIP drive here. I bought a grand total of
"one pack of cartridges" for it :-) That's $100 for five carts.
I loaded them up with materials once. I haven't read them since.
Not ever... :-) How embarrassing. See. I like toys too. Now
I have a 1.25GB archive that cost a small fortune. A $5 USB stick
would more than cover that today. At the time it didn't seem
foolish - it seemed cool. But today it looks pretty bad.

I do DVD burning here, but that's because I use those
for boot media. I must have around a hundred of those
now, scattered all over the place (four or five "stacks").
A BD would be a bit big for a boot disc.

Paul