RE: DVD Archive

["Creager, Robert S" <CreagRS@LOUISVILLE.STORTEK.COM>]

Hey Tom,

I should be able to tell you by then (8 months).  When ROB starts taking
data, I have plans of using a DVD from the start.  Sony (maybe others) has a
DVD unit which writes every current format for $350.  I have not looked into
Linux support yet, but don't expect any serious or long term problems.

Cheers,
Rob

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Tom Droege [mailto:tdroege2@earthlink.net] 
> Sent: January 13, 2003 10:57 AM
> To: tass@listserv.wwa.com
> Subject: DVD Archive
> 
> 
> I notice that one can now buy DVD-R disks as low as $0.58.  
> This beats 
> CD-Rs at $0.18 which is the best price that I have paid, but 
> not recently.
> 
> DVDs are better for me in that one will hold a whole night's 
> worth of data 
> for a telescope, so it makes for easier archiving.  At the 
> moment I am 
> writing last night's data to CDs and there are 8 to write.  
> So there is not 
> much one can do between putting disks in the slot and labels on the 
> finished ones.  (I generally do e-mail as I am doing now) So 
> the write 
> process takes a couple of hours during which time there is 
> little else that 
> I can do.
> 
> With a DVD I could just start the write process after taking 
> a night's 
> data.  With a good data examination program (I am working on 
> it) I could 
> then just start running and write everything to DVD.  Then 
> the analysis 
> program could sort out what is good.  OK, I stll believe in 
> doing some 
> looking at the data as it goes by, but in the future this 
> should be more 
> and more automated.
> 
> Does any one have experience with writing data to DVDs?
> 
> Under Windows?
> Under Linux?
> Is there something like xcdroast for DVDs?
> 
> How about the archival life of the DVD?  Does anyone know of 
> archival testing?
> 
> I have a stock of 1000+ CDs, when they run out would seem to 
> be about the 
> right time (8 months from now?) to switch over to DVDs.
> 
> Tom Droege
> 
>