Pippi wrote:
>You can't write to a cd, even the rewritable ones, without destroying the
>existing data, they just don't work that way.
I see you haven't had any experience with CD-Rs (Recordables) nor CD-RWs
(ReWritables) ;-)
We'll start with the CD-R.
What you say are true, but mostly on 1X CDs (that doesn't have
multi-session ability). The cost is ca 20MB for each started session IIRC.
Most (I wouldn't say all since someone probably still has a 1X) CDs can
handle that you add data to it, however there are some big problems with
this (IMHO):
1. A CD-R is more expensive than printing the CD, and in the ammounts we
are talking about the sheer ammount would be too many to produce.
2. Not everyone has a CD-R (but most new have)
3. There's not just one type of CD burner (such as floppy drives) so it
would be impossible to be able to handle all of them (especially the IDE
types, which - sadly - are the most common).
Now, if we go into CD-RWs it's a completly diffrent matter - you can write
and rewrite all you want. And if you thought CD-Rs were expensive you
haven't seen a CD-RWs so they can not be used ;-)
BTW: The original max speed was specified to being 2X for reading from a
CD-RW (in "datapack" format), I guess they changed this somewhere along the
way (and writing was 1X).
The only thing that may slow down the CD-R/RW drives explosion are the DVD
players - these are incredibly bad at reading non-printed media.
BTW2: I have actually considered using my CD-RW CD to take things with me
to school and friends since floppies are small and way too often
loose/corrupt the data.
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