Not true. You can write to the CD-RW, or even a CD-R as a Session. You can
add as many Sessions to a disc until it is full. You don�t have to wipe the
drive every time you need to write to it as long as there is space on the
disc.
> For lots of rewriting, the Zip 250 will win hands down when it comes to
> speed and versatility. Although the CD can hold more than twice the data
> and will be much cheaper per disc, you cannot write anything else to a CD-RW
> until you completely wipe the entire surface of the CD. ("Erase Disk" in
> the Finder) This means that if you want to put 5MB on a CD-RW, then a short
> while later want to put more data on it, you will have to completely erase
> the entire CD (even the blank space) then put all of the files back
> (including the one(s) that was there) onto the CD. Although having a CD-RW
> drive is definitely nice (been using mine for quite a while) I still
> *really* value my Zip drive and always use it more often when I have data
> that I need to update often.
>
> Hope this helps,
>
> Matt
>
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