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Technology Stocks : CD-R/RW and DVD Forum -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: Mr.G who wrote (32)	2/8/1999 2:05:00 PM
From: Rocky Reid	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 40

>>will a CD-RW do the job for me << Absolutely. First off, you can use 650MB CD-R blank disks which can cost you $1 each or less. These are great for regular backups and archival. You can burn repeatedly to CD-R blanks using "Multisession" up until you use up the entire 650MB of space. However, CD-R disks cannot be re-written. Very easy-to-use software is used to burn CD's, and usually comes with the CD-Burner. 650MB CD-RW blank disks (which cost around $5-$10 apiece) can be re-written over and over (I think about 1000 times). In fact, using a program like Adaptec's Direct CD (using UDF), you can treat a CD-RW disk just like a big floppy (just drag and drop). The disk capacity drops to 500MB, however. But the economy of CD-R/W cannot be denied. Zip disks are horribly expensive in the long run. And the well-documented "Click of Death" (a malfunction where both Zip disks and Drives are destroyed) have been a major problem with the Iomega format. CD burning does not suffer from Click of Death. Good luck with your purchase, whatever it might be.