Hi, Bret Busby wrote: > Are Blu-ray drives available for computers?
Sure. My oldest one is a LG BD-RE GGW-H20L of 2008. My youngest is a ASUS BW-16D1HT which i bought recently after my Optiarc BD-5300S died mechanically. > I do not know of the storage capacity for a Blu-ray disc, Single layer 25 GB, double layer 50 GB, triple layer 100 GB, four layer 128 GB. BD-R are write-once media. BD-RE are overwritable many times. Single layer media offer by far the best price/capacity ratio. (Cheaper than USB stick but more expensive than rotating hard disk.) > Given that USB thumb drives have been available, of up to 256GB capacity (I > have a few of them), I expect that iso files (or, iso file collections, if > needed, such as the whole set of 40 DVD images) for USB thumb drives, would > be available. There is a 16 GB ISO named STICK16GB-1 https://cdimage.debian.org/debian-cd/current/amd64/jigdo-16G/ The problem with multiple ISOs is that Debian expects them on as many different optical media and will prompt you to put them into the drive when needed. I am not aware that this would work out of the box with multiple USB sticks. Easier to use is a merged ISO which was made from some or all ISOs of a set of installation media. (Actually there are 19 DVDs on https://cdimage.debian.org/debian-cd/current/amd64/jigdo-dvd/ while "current" is 11.5.) > If my memory is correct, back at about Debian 3.0 or 3.1, Debian was > available on something like 3 DVD's or 8 CD's, although, with advancing > years, my memory of that, may be a bit fuzzy. Who needs wet memory when there is the cdimage archive ? https://cdimage.debian.org/mirror/cdimage/archive/ For the only CD sized images: https://cdimage.debian.org/mirror/cdimage/archive/3.0_r0/i386/ and of them there were seven: https://cdimage.debian.org/mirror/cdimage/archive/3.0_r0/i386/jigdo-cd/ But at 3.0_r3 there was also a single DVD: https://cdimage.debian.org/mirror/cdimage/archive/3.0_r6/i386/iso-dvd/ Have a nice day :) Thomas