Stephen Worthington wrote:

>** Reply to message from Mike O'Connor  on Fri, 10
>Sep 2004 00:54:02 +1000
>
>>Stephen Worthington wrote:
>>
>>>of course, if you really want fast RW capability, you need to get a DVD
>>>writer.  There is plenty of 4x DVD RW media available at not too
>>>expensive prices, and 4x DVD speed is very fast (4.37 Gbytes in 15
>>>minutes = 298 Mbytes per minute).
>>>
>>nice -- but still too pricey for me, and I'm quite happy to use CD as 
>>I'm not into MP3s etc., and most usage is backup of relatively small 
>>partitions - I can usually fit 1GB uncompressed onto a 650MB CD with 
>>FastBack/2, or a zipped edition of the drive.
>>    
>>
>DVD writers are still a little expensive (but coming down).  But the
>media is cheaper than CD per byte now, as long as you buy in bulk.  My
>last purchase of 50 Princo DVD-Rs was NZ$66 (AUS$61.40), or NZ$1.32
>(AUS$1.23) each.  You do have to add the cost of paper packets or
>mini-jewel cases, but the mini-jewel cases are very cheap at The
>Warehouse (NZ$2.99 for 10), so the all up price is very reasonable.  If
>you only go into DSE or the like, the DVD media prices are sky high in
>comparison - you have to buy from the web stores to get the bulk prices.
>
>  http://www.ascent.co.nz/mn-product-template.asp?cname=Media
>
>In my price comparision, I am ruling out the really cheap CD brands, as
>I have found that they are too cheap - lots of verify failures after
>burning, and far too many C1 errors when I do sector read checks. 
>
I usually run Roman Stangl's XCOMP.EXE [CD vs. source] to verify they 
are identical, or if zipped run the ZIP with -T option [overall archive] 
and also UNZIP with the -t option [individual file integrity].

> I
>would not trust such media to hold my data safely, and I had a couple
>of these nasty CDs have total failure of at least one sector within
>days of burning.  Fortuately, I backup everything twice, for exactly
>this sort of reason, so I did not lose anything.  DVD media on the
>other hand, even the relatively cheap brands I am using (Princo and
>Laser), seems to be pretty reliable.  I have only ever had one burn
>failure in about 90 DVD-Rs burned so far, and no later read back
>problems at all.
>
>--
>

Hi Stephen,

Thanks for the additional insights and the link.
BTW [corrected above by me] your quoting method is often eliminating the 
first character in paras.

-- 
Regards,
Mike

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