Posted by Citizen Bob on 12/13/06 22:00

On Wed, 13 Dec 2006 20:27:32 GMT, "Stuart Miller"
<stuart_miller@shaw.ca> wrote:

>DVD-RW was never intended to be a substitute for a hard drive, as they have
>a very limited lifespan.

Tell me. I got at most 10 erasures from Verbatim 4x DVD+RWs. Others
have gotten even fewer. And that's with 2.4x burns.

Fortunately they have gotten relatively cheap, I can get Verbatim 4x
at rima.com for around 75 cents in 100 lot. If I manage to get 10
burns, that's 7.5 cents per burn, which is a lot cheaper than DVD-R
which is 28 cents per burn (Taiyo Yuden 8x at rima.com).


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Government's view of the economy could be summed up in a
few short phrases: If it moves, tax it. If it keeps moving,
regulate it. And if it stops moving, subsidize it.
--Ronald Reagan

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