Posted by Justin on 10/26/06 23:57

George Peatty wrote on [Thu, 26 Oct 2006 18:49:19 -0400]:
> On Thu, 26 Oct 2006 21:19:24 GMT, ted@loft.tnolan.com (Ted Nolan <tednolan>)
> wrote:
>
>>How about the computer market as a driver? First you needed CDR for
>>backup and then DVD, but in the age of 200G hard drives, 9G DVD is
>>looking pretty anemic as a storage medium.
>
> Unless you're storing backup copies of all your movie DVDs, I'd say 9 GB is
> fine for storage in the near term. I have about 35 GB of MP3s that fit
> nicely onto about 10 DVDRWs, and I don't feel cramped for storage capacity.
> And, outside of some commercial backup enterprise, or the wish to copy
> movies, I doubt that many people have backup needs as large as mine.

Oh, there are lots of reasons to want to backup that much. 10 discs is a
lot to juggle in itself and doesn't exactly inspire a want to backup
often.

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