Using a blu-ray as a backup in 2013? What a strange idea. Yes, but if like me you do only moderate confidence in the cloud, brackets - Hard optical media drives are still at least somewhat relevant ... even more so if, as here, it can accommodate 50 GB (well 48.7 GB) on a rewritable medium. Only drawback: the slow burning (2 X only), which for 50 GB takes ... A little time ...