I have a new Dell XPS with a Blu-Ray. Are these discs suitable for a whole system back up or just movies &amp; pictures?
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The discs have a capacity of 50 GB. You can store any type of file you want on them: movies, pictures, documents, whatever you want. I use them for backing up my system: I have many GBs of family pictures and videos, but I also back up everything else on these.
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As far as I know you can use a blu-ray burner to burn non blue ray cds. Also in all probability you'll never need 32GB of memory.
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The kind of hard drive your using should really have any affect on playing back HD movies. The only restraint with the hard drive may be the amount of space for storing and the bit transfer rate. The bigger factors are going to be the capability of your graphics card and how much ram your pc has.
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No, need to buy online, not so expensive for a slim CD/DVD/Blu-Ray combo drive, if u want to a Blu-Ray writer drive, a bit more spending would be nicer...:)
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Sure. You remove the SD card, and copy the movies on CD, DVD, other Card, etc. I backup on the shared network attached drive.
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This is a full install dvd, but only for a clean drive. I'm guessing the one for $199 is an upgrade...I would suggest Win 8.1.
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I have an older computer with an XP operating system. I needed a simple way to load files without burning DVDs. I then took the flashdrive to my new computer, with a Windows 7 operating system and uploaded the files to the new computer. It was a piece of cake to use. I know your question involved using it on a DELL computer, but the brand name is actually a secondary to the operating system, i.e. Windows XP. I am thoroughly pleased with my purchase, and think you will too. PS - I also loved the price. Hope this helps Sarah! Enjoy Spring!
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I have been using DIGISTOR BD-R White printable discs (25GB). I have burned videos on about 35 discs & have not had a failure to date. Interesting enough, Digistor brand was the least expensive Blu-ray disc at the time of my purchase. Hope this helps.
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I have not tried either. I use my exclusively for backup purposes (Data). However, I would be VERY surprised if it wouldn't play both DVD and Blu-ray movies and do it well.
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Am I crazy, or is it more than a bit offputting that, after buying a machine, you then have to start getting upgrades for it just to be able to play newer discs? My machine's about two years old, and the last disc I bought wouldn't load. Seems like a rip-off to me. And it's not like blu-ray sales have been strong enough to justify this sort of customer fleecing.
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It should work just fine but if your computer is still IDE and you should also look into getting a better graphics card for your computer for it to play blu-rays and you can find ones that will work just fine on amazon for around $25-$50
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Mine is OK. Since I bought I used in two different computers. Played blu-ray, DVD, CD, everything. I had to install a proper software first. I use Cyberlink PowerDVD 13.
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You can install windows 7. I recommend updating the ram to 2GB beforehand. The unit is capable of playing Blu-rays from an external player, so I imagine it should play the hauppauge files as long as you have software that will play it.
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We have never had any issue with a disk at all, if one of the bunch didn't work then I would say yes. Could happen, but if all don't play, you hve a problem with the blu Ray playing reg disk,
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I use this model mainly for DVDs. It is quiet and fast. I have burned 25Gb blu-ray discs but not of the M-disc type. LGs says it supports M-disc.
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You need to format it as a FAT32 drive. It comes pre-formatted with the NTFS file system--which can't be read by most Blu-ray players.
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Mostly all newer laptops can be upgraded with blu ray drive just need correct software. But item is not available.