OT: SLR 5 Tape drive vs DAT

[Bill Vermillion]

On Wed, Feb 02 11:41 , Walter Vaughan moved his mouse, rebooted for the 
change to take effect, and then said:" 

> Fairlight wrote:
> >DVD-RW/+RW anyone?
> 
> Cons:
> 	They only allow up to 100,000 rewrite cycles[1]

That is also wrong.  You will not get more than 1000 re-writes
on DVD-RW or DVD+RW.    You will get 100,000 rewrites on DVD-RAM.

The DVD-RAM can be formatted to look like a hard disk and are much
faster in access than than DVD +/-  R or RW

> Pros:
> 	Disks are about $1.50 each now.

DVD-RAM disks are more than that.  DVD+R's are about 40 cents each.
DVD+RW are about 60  cents each.

> 	Writers are less than $100 now.

Good ones that are fast are still a bit more - figure about $130
up.

And you still are limited to about 4.3GB [in computers termms] or
4.7 billion bytes in HW manufacturer terms.

> [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

It is close to 1K on R/Ws - if tapeworld has it more than that,
they are not correct.

Bill
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