Re: Backup device:Tape vs CD-RW

From: Stan (stan@plato.wadham.ox.ac.uk)
Date: 01/21/03 

From: Stan <stan@plato.wadham.ox.ac.uk>
Date: Tue, 21 Jan 2003 14:40:31 +0000 (UTC)

On Tue, 21 Jan 2003 09:08:09 -0500, Gaetan Martineau
<gmartiPAS_DE_SPAM@mediom.qc.ca> wrote:
> Stan wrote:
>> and you can of course buy a DVD-RW drive for convenient dumps of
>> around 4GB (DVD-R media is about 50p per disk so a friday night
>> archive works quite well) I've heard that DVD-RW disks aren't that
>> reliable, can anyone comment?
>>
>
> 4 Gb begins to be interesting. I suppose a DVD-RW can also record a CD,
> right?

I'm pretty sure that most can.

> And reliability?

Well I've had no problems with DVD-R and haven't tried any of the
others (-RW/+R/+RW). This is an active area so perhaps not best
suited to backup BUT I've found it a very cost effective method
especially because I can access my backup disks on 90% of DVD-ROM
drives I don't need to worry about the writer dying and me loosing
access to my data - I'd have felt compelled to purchase at least two
tape drives if I were planning on using tape as a backup method.

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