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Posted by Bill Vermillion on 04/17/07 16:45
In article <4624c74f.4886703@news-server.bigpond.net.au>,
SalesMart.com.au <sales@___Email_Address_on_Web_site> wrote:
>On Mon, 16 Apr 2007 22:45:01 GMT, bv@wjv.com (Bill Vermillion) wrote:
>
>>In article <XMNUh.83538$aG1.4486@pd7urf3no>,
>>Stuart Miller <stuart_miller@shaw.ca> wrote:
>>>
>>><edenesiuk@cogeco.ca> wrote in message
>>>news:1176680902.255879.254670@o5g2000hsb.googlegroups.com...
>>>> On Mar 30, 2:49 pm, Ron <ron_j_ma...@hotpop.com> wrote:
>>>>> Hi! .....
>>>>> My "Pioneer" 'DVR-310' DVD Recorder accepts
>>>>
>>>> I expect in a year I will have to buy a DVD recorder because VCRs are
>>>> being phased out. I use my V. continuously and wonder if the
>>>> recorder discs are as cheap to use/re-use daily. The tapes for V
>>>> are reusable for a long time is this true of D discs.
>>>>
>>>I have seen conflicting data on this. Some people have expereinced failures
>>>after as few as 10 write/erase cycles. There are posts about this in the
>>>various dvd newsgroups.
>>>
>>>Also, some people have experienced significant signal loss on rewriteabe
>>>dvd's after month or years, so this apparently should not be considered a
>>>permanant media.
>>>
>>>Your mileage may vary.....
>>>
>>>Stuart
>>
>>The more expensive DVD-RAM disks - which would be fine if he's
>>going to use them over and over - are good for thousands of
>>write/erase cycles. They act more like small hard-drives and can
>>actually be used as re-writeable filesystems for OSes that
>>support it.
>
>The RiDATA DVD-RAM 3X video disc I bought back in 2004 still works
>today for rewites some 3 years later. Bought them for my first
>recorder which was the Panasonic DMR-E30 which I bought in April of
>2003. Hardly use DVD-RAM these days as my two latest recorders have
>hard drives on them which are much easier to play with than messing
>around with DVD blanks on a recorder with no hard drive.
>
>I did play around with DVD-RW and DVD+RW but after a few re writes
>found the media to be a bit unreliable. Mainly use DVD-R with the odd
>DVD-RAM these days.
On some of the earliest DVD-RW I got - Optodisk - I'd get failures
after as few a 4 writes and don't think I got more than 10.
Really poor media IMO
>DVD-RAM are like small hard drives with up to 100,000 re writes.
>I've done a few hundred re writes on the DVD-RAM discs that I have
>used over the last few years and the media still holds up well today.
>The RiDATA DVD-RAM 3X I bought was from 3 years ago and these
>haven't missed a beat since.
And they are used often for computer backups where you dno't need
more than the 4GB capacity. All the systems I work with have
gone long past that limit however - and the 60/120 GB tape drives
are starting to look small :-(
Bill
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