RE: Progress During May

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

Hey Tom,

Every 1x on DVD is equal to 9x on CD, so 4x DVD write is equal to 36x CD
write.  I'd pick up the Sony unit that does everything (the one Dirk
mentions, I have the same one), then you can pick and choose what format you
want to write.  I'll point you to http://fy.chalmers.se/~appro/linux/DVD+RW/
again, and I believe there are some technical reasons in there somewhere as
to why the DVD+ formats are better.

Later,
Rob

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Tom Droege [mailto:tdroege2@earthlink.net] 
> Sent: June 05, 2003 3:25 PM
> To: Michael Koppelman; tass@listserv.wwa.com
> Subject: Re: Progress During May
> 
> 
> 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?
> 
>