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More stuff for 2.6.19

More stuff for 2.6.19

Posted Oct 5, 2006 17:44 UTC (Thu) by jzbiciak (✭ supporter ✭, #5246)
In reply to: More stuff for 2.6.19 by nix
Parent article: More stuff for 2.6.19

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.


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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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