vrobin;230583 Wrote: > Different country, different habits, here in france, it's: > 10pc DVD+R DL - 35 > 10pc DVD+R SL - 11 > 500 GB Seagate - 85 > > Lets assume 8.4GB of usable data on the DL and 670GB on the hard drive > (with formating and counting in base2 as opposed to base10) > DVD+R SL = 1.1/4.7 = ~0.234 > DVD+R DL = 3.5/8.4 = ~0.416 per GB > 500GB HD = 85/450 = ~0.19 per GB > > Here, wherever your time is valuable or not, it's better on a spare > hard drive. All in all, even with your country prices, I would still > chose hard disk option :). Maybe it's a bad impression, but I would > rely more on a hard drive than on optical drives (even if in a hard > drive failure you loose far more data)
Fry's Electronics generally has 100 pack SL DVD+r for $33 on sale. Right now this is true for Sony and TDKs. So that is around 7 cents a Gbyte. I recently got a Maxtor 300Gbyte drive for $59, so that is around 19 cents a Gbyte. I don't have a 500G drive price handy. Still, my issue is the ability to do incremental back ups. I guess I need to RTFM a linux manual since I can't believe such software doesn't exist. Incidentally, and doesn't ask me for the reference, but somewhere on the net I read a write up on the differences between +r and -r DVDs. My recollection is +r is more robust. Other than size of the pile of DVDs, I don't think dual layer is competitive. At least my burner is slower for DL. -- gariac ------------------------------------------------------------------------ gariac's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=12871 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=38688
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