Blu ray burning

[Master aura]

Hiya!
 

So i am looking to back up my physical blu rays and possible have them saved online as a backup, ia there any advice for this or is it not really possible to burn modern blu-rays?

[Catzzye]

You want to rip them, not burn them.

Ripping means preserving the data (media) on the disc and burning is for burning a file onto a CD/DVD.

Check out MakeMKV if you're just starting off: https://www.pcmag.com/how-to/how-to-rip-blu-ray-discs-to-your-pc

You can burn blu ray discs but then that's just physical media again..?

[RONOTHAN##]

34 minutes ago, Master aura said:

Hiya!
 

So i am looking to back up my physical blu rays and possible have them saved online as a backup, ia there any advice for this or is it not really possible to burn modern blu-rays?

You can still do it, though I doubt the practicality of it. If you're looking to backup movies, you're going to want to get the 50GB variety as most movies I'm aware of are found on that disk style. A 50 pack of those costs $70 on Amazon currently. That same $70 can buy you a 4TB HDD and get you double the amount of disks backed up (yes you will be missing 1TB of overall capacity, but Blu Rays aren't 100% space efficient while HDDs are, so the amount blank on each disk should even it out).

 

Not to mention that burned disks have a expiration date on them, while HDDs usually don't. A burned disk takes about 10 years before it decays and the disk is unreadable, while magnetic storage doesn't have that same downside. HDDs will instead have an amount of spin up time before they die, and if it's just a backup, it should last a lot longer. Not to mention that duplicating a HDD is a lot easier and quicker than duplicating 100 Blu Rays. 

 

 

Just get a HDD and rip all the disks rather than duplicating them. It makes a lot more sense IMO, MakeMKV is great at this.

[Master aura]

17 hours ago, Catzzye said:

You want to rip them, not burn them.

Ripping means preserving the data (media) on the disc and burning is for burning a file onto a CD/DVD.

Check out MakeMKV if you're just starting off: https://www.pcmag.com/how-to/how-to-rip-blu-ray-discs-to-your-pc

You can burn blu ray discs but then that's just physical media again..?

Ahh sorry your right i want to rip them used the wrong words 

[Master aura]

17 hours ago, RONOTHAN## said:

You can still do it, though I doubt the practicality of it. If you're looking to backup movies, you're going to want to get the 50GB variety as most movies I'm aware of are found on that disk style. A 50 pack of those costs $70 on Amazon currently. That same $70 can buy you a 4TB HDD and get you double the amount of disks backed up (yes you will be missing 1TB of overall capacity, but Blu Rays aren't 100% space efficient while HDDs are, so the amount blank on each disk should even it out).

 

Not to mention that burned disks have a expiration date on them, while HDDs usually don't. A burned disk takes about 10 years before it decays and the disk is unreadable, while magnetic storage doesn't have that same downside. HDDs will instead have an amount of spin up time before they die, and if it's just a backup, it should last a lot longer. Not to mention that duplicating a HDD is a lot easier and quicker than duplicating 100 Blu Rays. 

 

 

Just get a HDD and rip all the disks rather than duplicating them. It makes a lot more sense IMO, MakeMKV is great at this.

Cheers for the detailed answer! I have installed MakeMKV now and trying it out just need to get a blu ray player to rip them all.

[OhioYJ]

1 hour ago, Master aura said:

just need to get a blu ray player to rip them all.

You may want to look into Libredrive firmware and make sure you get a drive that is supported. Most are, but just an FYI. Makemkv releases firmware for this.