Bluray Carousel

Before the advent of the mp3 the best way to have all your music on demand was to own a CD carousel like this. One of my friends had one at the time which lead me to the idea of replacing the CD player for one that read DVDs. However DivX/MPG4 and large harddrives rendered that idea a bit redundant before I had a chance to put it into practice. Since Blu-ray has stepped up the required storage size, added to the annoyance of copy protection in those and the PS3 game, the idea seems like a good one again.

Now that your whole music collection can fit onto a phone the price of CD carousels is pretty low and I managed to pick up a couple of CDP-CX450s on ebay relatively cheaply.

I plan to hook one up to the PS3 for games and Blu-ray movies, and the other, with a Blu-ray writer, to the PC for storage.

Total Size
400 x 25GB = 10TB
400 x 50GB = 20TB
400 x 100GB = 40TB
400 x 125GB = 50TB

Cost comparison
2TB External Hardrive 5p/GB
25GB Bluray Disc 3p/GB
50GB Bluray Disc 19p/GB
100GB Bluray XL Disc 90p/GB
125GB Bluray XL Disc tbc

So as you can see 25GB discs are already a good price, the others are coming down gradually. Also bear in mind the fact that conventional drives are more prone to fail and use more power.

Watch out for later posts to find out how I get on with this...