Posted by SalesMart.com.au on 04/18/07 08:35

On Tue, 17 Apr 2007 16:45:01 GMT, bv@wjv.com (Bill Vermillion) wrote:

>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 :-(

For computer backups I prefer to use USB2 hard drives which are many
times faster than DVD will ever be. To backup 4Gb only takes seconds
on my system.

In another life I once used 250Mb Tape drives but that was going back
some years. I still have the old Conner Tape drive sitting up on a
shelf. Seagate took over Conner years ago thats how old it is.

There are those thumb drives that are out to 128Gb now. These are
smaller than a car key but at 128Gb cost an arm and a leg. 4Gb
thumb/flash drives are about $55 AUS dollars now and these are
becoming quite popular. The 16Gb thumb/flash drives have just made
their way to Australia but they are to expensive at $300 AUS. Like
every new toy they'll come down in price over time. Just a couple oif
years ago a 1Gb thumb drive would have been over $2000 AUS and now
they are only about $35 AUS.

There are also external 2.5" and would you believe 1.8" drives which
are out to 40Gb already. Seagate has a 7200rpm 2.5" drive available
now so those that are lookng at laptops ought to make sure it has one
of these newer drives in them.

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