Messages in this thread | | | Date | Tue, 18 May 1999 00:33:06 +0100 (BST) | From | Alex Buell <> | Subject | Re: CD-RW |
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On Mon, 17 May 1999, Tethys wrote:
> I haven't actually tried this, but even if you can, it's worth bearing > in mind that the media has a *much* shorter life-span than a normal > hard disk. From memory, most support something like 500,000 rewrites. > On a normally mounted filesystem, that's not going to last very long > before you start looking at data corruption. CD-RWs are really much > better suited to occasional write usage, like rotated media for daily > backups than for everyday use with a general filesystem like ext2.
[Excuse me for butting in, and I bet it's off-topic but..]
I'm sick of fscking tape drives, so I'm about to buy a HP-8100i IDE CD-RW. Is this device compatible with Linux & is it a CD-RW device (ie 500,000 rewrites?)
Cheers, Alex -- "For some of us, horror movies ARE comedies. Doctor Giggles comes to mind" - Alex Buell, May 1999.
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