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More stuff for 2.6.19More stuff for 2.6.19Posted Oct 5, 2006 10:40 UTC (Thu) by nix (subscriber, #2304)Parent article: More stuff for 2.6.19
Hm, 1.6Gb is rather quaint? I'm still backing up a lot of stuff to CD-Rs: 700Mb or so per CD...
What probably is true is that the *devices* that ftape drove are probably on their last legs, so it's sensible to move to something else for that reason alone. CD writers aren't so obsolete: although eventually DVD writers might supplant them, they're so much more annoying to use than CD writers that that might take some time. (I've bought three DVD readers and two DVD writers in my time. *Not one* works properly in Windows or Linux, in each case because of blatant drive hardware problems; e.g. head misalignment or in one case a dry joint leading to intermittent power to the lasers. It's about as clapped out as the high-speed USB situation, where transferring more than a few Mb at high speed causes a lot of USB controllers to corrupt it... do no removable storage vendors *test* their designs?)
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More stuff for 2.6.19 Posted Oct 5, 2006 17:44 UTC (Thu) by jzbiciak (✭ supporter ✭, #5246) [Link] But at $30 a piece, you can by dual layer DVD burners by the 3 pack and still be cheaper than a 1x CD burner was back when "huge" HDs were smaller than dual-layer DVD-Rs. :-) And for the record, I haven't had any problems yet with my NEC DVD burners. And if it fails, I can replace it for less than the cost of a night out.
More stuff for 2.6.19 Posted Oct 6, 2006 12:24 UTC (Fri) by jbailey (subscriber, #16890) [Link] Wow. So that's like $30 for the drive, and somewhere in the neighbourhood of $30 for the media!
*sigh* I think all of my drives are dual layer now, but I keep waiting for the media to come down in price.
Dual sided media Posted Oct 6, 2006 17:19 UTC (Fri) by shredwheat (guest, #4188) [Link] You can make some media dual sided by cutting along the edge. Unfortunately this type of media has fallen out of use.
Dual sided media Posted Oct 6, 2006 17:42 UTC (Fri) by jzbiciak (✭ supporter ✭, #5246) [Link] Something tells me it's less popular than even floppy-tape is... Something about holding 400K tops (with a custom format, that is).
More stuff for 2.6.19 Posted Oct 12, 2006 2:46 UTC (Thu) by dlang (✭ supporter ✭, #313) [Link] blank DVD's run <$1usd each (single layer, double layer blanks are still ~$2.50)
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