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Originally Posted by ah802
For those who they would never use this amount of storage.. For the last 6 months I've been hitting 300 gigs per month download, and I don't see the recordable media commonly available for HD and more importantly at an affordable price.
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Blu-Ray is a pretty good mass storage medium for computers--that's what it was designed to be.
It's not cheap, though. 50GB BD-R (write once) is between $30-$40 a disc, a pack of 50, 25GB BD-R (1.25TB total) will run you around $500. Obviously 100GB and 200GB BD-R discs will be even more if/when they hit the market. Then there's the cost of the drive.
You can currently buy a 100GB hard drive for less than $50 (if you can still find any less than 160GB), a 500GB hard drive for less than $100 and 1-1.5TB hard drives for under $200.
Even small, lightweight portable USB drives are considerably cheaper--250-320GB for less than $80.