Re: Progress During May

[Tom Droege <tdroege2@earthlink.net>]

OK, Michael says I should switch to DVD and I agree.  I think DVD-R as I 
never want to rewrite anything.

So what box should I buy?  Looks like the disks are cheap enough.  The best 
units I can find say 4x.  Does this compare to 4x CDRs?  If so this seems 
pretty slow.  I am used to 16x and 24x for my archiving.  The DVDs do have 
the advantage that I can just start the process and go away.  A big 
improvement since I presently have to sit by the computer and feed it 
CDs.  It is just fast enough that it does not pay to wander off to do 
something else.

The important thing for me is that they write in some common standard 
ISOxxx that is not apt to change over time.  The other important thing is 
that linux knows about them and just writes and reads from them.  So which 
box should I buy that meets my needs?

I will then buy 2 and set up to write all the production data to DVD.

Tom Droege

At 02:53 PM 6/5/03 -0500, you wrote:
>Great work, Tom!
>
>If you could switch to DVD this would only be 23 DVDs.
>
>Michael Koppelman
>
>On Thursday, June 5, 2003, at 02:47 PM, Tom Droege wrote:
>
>>During May we collected 156 CD's of data.
>