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Non-Tech : Iomega Thread without Iomega -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: maaad who wrote (4086)	11/14/1998 11:49:00 PM
From: Rocky Reid	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 10072

>>Myunderstanding of the re-writeable CD is that it has a limited life/ capacity; every time you re-write you lose capacity.<< Your understanding is incorrect. CD-RW's capacity is 650MB. This does not diminish with re-writes. CD-RW's are often rated for 1000 write cycles. This is at least as good as Zip or any other magnetic disc. If you want to use a CD-RW as a big giant floppy (drag and drop at will), you can use Packet Writing software like DirectCD, however this diminishes the useful capacity to about 500MB per CD-RW disc. But you can write over and over and over again. CD-RW is great. I have 2 CD-RW drives. And where I work the total is 4 CD-RW's.