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Number : 3306 Date : 2002-12-14 Author : Marek Yarbrough Subject : Re: backup strategy using XXCOPY plus NTBACKUP? Size(KB) : 2
Perhaps the push for DVD technology has superceded th CD-RW market. The DVD burners are being dropped in price rapidly and the media price is falling as well. The DVD+/-RW media is becoming a regular sight here in the bay area stores. The significant size difference between the CD and DVD media will probably make CD-rw less attactive to both the developers and the hardware manufacturers. Betamax or VHS again! The big guys (Gates and Jobs) are both sold on making DVD an integral part of their baseline software and will probably end up eating the little guys (Nero and Roxio) out of their niche. I know that both Sonic and Spruce were involved with the plans to become part of mainstream operating systems. Last I heard they were going to become reduced to file manager drag down tools. The video publishing market still holds out on special needs. From a sysadmin point of view the DVD storage is unbeatable (especially with compression...nearly 10 GBytes). I haven't studied the feasibility and engineering of the actual burn process of DVD+rw versus CD-rw, but I have a feeling that re-usability has been well thought out on the DVD side. As time allows, I will talk to some of people I knew from Spruce. Perhaps they have some knowledge of how well the media really holds up. Seems that a packet writing driver integrated with XXcopy would add alot of versatility to this tool. Sometimes I wish I was much more of a software engineer. Marek "freedom41ca " wrote:--- In xxcopy@yahoogroups.com, Marek Yarbrough wrote: > > Wilco...I am interested as well. The DVD+rw folks brag that 1000 rewrites should be acceptable. I am doubtful that they will reach a tenth of that, Those stats sound pretty reliable. I just need to read up on the technology a litte more befor becoming comfortable with using it. I understand how CD's are burned, so I'm in conflict with how thay can keep reburning an optical image reliably on/over the same medium. I also don't see too many CD-RW blanks at the stores (BestBuy, Future Shop, Staples, etc.), so I'm assuming it's still a new technology. Martin If at first you don't succeed, blame someone else and seek counseling. Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to the Yahoo! Terms of Service. --------------------------------- Do you Yahoo!? Yahoo! Mail Plus - Powerful. Affordable. Sign up now [Non-text portions of this message have been removed]
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