OT: SLR 5 Tape drive vs DAT

Walter Vaughan wvaughan at steelerubber.com
Wed Feb 2 08:41:31 PST 2005


Fairlight wrote:
> DVD-RW/+RW anyone?

Cons:
	They only allow up to 100,000 rewrite cycles[1]
Pros:
	Disks are about $1.50 each now.
	Writers are less than $100 now.

Yep, I wanna be in the tape business today. Oh, wait we beat that up a 
few weeks ago...

--
Walter
[1] vs. 1,000 for Sony DDS4 tapes
- http://www.tapeworld.com/product_detail.asp?id=684
I'd have expected close to a 1k figure for DVD-R/W's


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