[ale] OT:DVD burner recommendations

[Scott Castaline]

Michael B. Trausch wrote:
> On Thu, 2008-07-10 at 19:14 -0400, Jim Lynch wrote:
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>> So what's a DVD RAM do for you?  I'm guessing its a very slow persistent 
>> storage device, but  what's the advantage over  disk?
>>     
>
> You can burn ISO images to the things, you can format them with any
> arbitrary filesystem (ext2/3/4, UDF, FAT32), and the media provides
> certain types of storage guarantees that floppies don't.  It's faster
> than floppy, and faster than packet-writing to CD-RW/DVD-RW.
>
> I bought a two pack from Wally World, and have been playing with them.
> If only they were less expensive, I would be able to actually do things
> like back up segments of my $HOME onto topically oriented media, which
> would be fairly easy for me to manage.  When I reach a point of wanting
> to make the backup immutable, I can then burn it to a DVD-R or
> something.  Oh, and they are faster than CD-RW and DVD-RW, and packet
> writing doesn't seem to work very well, if at all, and I wanted big
> floppies.  :)
>
> There is also a decent part of me that misses having the ability to put
> files on a media and have them with me.  And the media is just as
> portable as a floppy, at least to drives that can read DVD-RAM media
> (which seems to be just about any new CD/DVD combo device).
>
> Also, given the size of the media, it's easy to use one side of one
> media for project work.  Holding one project on side A of a disc, and
> another on side B, gives you the ability to shelve the project when it's
> done, and pull it back out later when something needs to be done to it
> again, without keeping it as extra clutter on the hard drive.  I kinda
> hate the fact that hard drives keep growing, because I _hate_ the
> organizational impact of having such vastly huge amounts of storage.
> It's great for servers... though I have this huge drive in my
> workstation and I can't imagine filling it up except out of necessity.
>
> It would be kind of nice for some sort of durable, persistent, removable
> storage solution (not USB flash drives, either) to catch on again.  It
> is just very simple to have a disc, pop it in, do some work on it, and
> then remove it again.  It's easier to organize, too, that way (at least
> for me).  Keeping discs that are topically oriented and easy to "get my
> hands on" makes it easier for me to remember what is stored where.  Call
> me weird, but that's how I did it when I started using computers, and
> while I haven't done things that way in a long time, it was nice, it was
> simple, and I could definitely stand to go back to it.  :)
>
> 	--- Mike
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Somebody had provided a link in regards to the fact that there really 
are only a handfull of CD-DVD/Burner mfgs and the rest just repackage 
etc. The link had an article that Toshiba(at lest I think it was 
Toshiba) is gearing up to release a 16 layer 400GB burner in the near 
future.