On Sunday 29 August 2004 06:25 pm, Dustin Decker wrote:
Anyway, he cited DVD-RAM, Magneto-Optical devices and compared them to the CD/DVD RW discs for their superior durability. What do these devices cost these days, Jason? How about the media for them?
These are generally a bit more expensive.
Than what?
If you can afford to go USB or Firewire with a pair of external drives you can rotate through (at around $300.00 - $500.00 each depending on what you buy and where) you might find yourself in better shape.
120-160G USB/FireWire drives are down under $200 now, with USB-only cheaper still.
Again, can't really speak on these, but I expect they're doing their own proprietary format on a regular 4.7GB piece of media.
Like I said, the size indicates they'd be double-sided, so it's just a question of whether they're bragging that you can use a double-sided disk and turn it over, or if they actually have dual heads and can read/write both sides without removing the disk. Format would be standard, so no need to worry about propietary hardare.
These days I would think that you'd have a better chance of replacing that failed RAID controller from ebay or somewhere. Do a search of newsgroups for someone who has one and does/doesn't like it and offer to trade them straight up for a current Adaptec or something like that.
Jonathan Hutchins wrote:
Like I said, the size indicates they'd be double-sided, so it's just a question of whether they're bragging that you can use a double-sided disk and turn it over, or if they actually have dual heads and can read/write both sides without removing the disk. Format would be standard, so no need to worry about propietary hardare.
All of the writers require the user to intervene in the flipping of sides.
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