Been doing backups on external SCSI, rewritable CD's at 4x write for a few
months now. Beats tape for small backups and can get a Gig or so on disks
with compression.
Geoff
Geoff & Jacquie Jenkins, State Electronics, Waihi, New Zealand
Computer software development professionals
Computer Help Line 0900-LEARN (0900-53276)
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----- Original Message -----
From: Nahum Wild <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: Multiple recipients of list offtopic <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Sent: Wednesday, September 29, 1999 3:15 PM
Subject: RE: [DUG-OFFTOPIC]: re: Decoding GIF's in New Zealand
> Using a CD Writer is not as gimmicky though! Besides my experience with
them
> has been that you can't you the computer while your writing or you are
> liable to stuff it up. Thats with an internal IDE CD Writer, is using a
USB
> one any different?
>
>
> Nahum
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Aaron Scott-Boddendijk [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
> Sent: Wednesday, 29 September 1999 15:01
> To: Multiple recipients of list offtopic
> Subject: Re: [DUG-OFFTOPIC]: re: Decoding GIF's in New Zealand
>
>
> > Thats ok though, I can put 650mb of uncompressed data on it and the MD
> > recorder will do the compression.
>
> Except I thought the compression was lossy not loss-less... Therefore not
a
> viable mechanism for digital data but rather only good for waveform
data....
> If
> you can turn off compression you could of course write .zip or some other
> compressed form to the drive...
>
> > It could be really handy, esp with my portable MD Recorder, for
> transfering
> > large files between computers that would otherwise not be connected.
The
> > only problem would be the speed.
>
> what about a USB HP rewritable -- that oughta give the best solution since
> most
> CDROM (post '97) can read CDRW disks...
>
> --
> Aaron Scott-Boddendijk
> Jump Productions
> (07) 838-3371 Voice
> (07) 838-3372 Fax
>
>
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