Re: Progress During May

[Chris Albertson <chrisalbertson90278@yahoo.com>]

My brother burns a lot of disks enough that he buys those
100 unit cake boxes by the case.  His experiance with DVD
is that it is more susseptable to error than CD.  The disks
are close to a buck each and the slightest finger print
makes the blank un-usable whereas in recent years CDs
have come to tolerate scratches and finger prints.



--- Tom Droege <tdroege2@earthlink.net> wrote:
> 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.
> >
> 
> 
> 


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