10 pack TDK DVD+R 1-16x $1.95
This was posted 166 days ago, and might be an out-dated deal
BING LEE at Hurstville are selling these.
I purchased 5 boxes this morning - 50 blank dvd’s with cases for under $10.00.
Not sure as to availability at other Bing Lee stores, but the Hurstville store had heaps remaining.
Under $10? Wow! I wouldn’t have bought it if it were $10, that extra twenty five cents makes all the difference.
DVD+R is a format for optical data storage. It is similar to, but incompatible with, the older DVD-R standard. A DVD+R is a write-once optical disc with 4.7 gigabytes of storage, generally used for nonvolatile data storage or video applications.
(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/DVD+R)
DVD-R is a DVD recordable format. A DVD-R typically has a storage capacity of 4.71 GB (or 4.38 GiB), a CD-R. Pioneer has also developed an 9.4 GB dual layer version, DVD-R DL, which appeared on the market in 2005.
Data on a DVD-R cannot be changed, whereas a DVD-RW (DVD-rewritable) can be rewritten multiple (1000+) times. DVD-R(W) is one of three competing industry standard DVD recordable formats; the others are DVD+R(W) and DVD-RAM.
(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/DVD-R)
That’s what you think. Obviously you haven’t been through or aware of ST-506, ATA, PATA, SATA, various generations of large block addressing schemes, and now the latest 4k block size, among other things. - and + are a wash, drives can handle both. If you want rewritability get RW. RAM is hardly ever used. That’s basically it.
I am aware. Evolutionary changes are a given but it’s different from having competing factions/technology providing effectively the same thing and causing people ongoing grief. If they hadn’t been able to eventually come up with a drive to handle both + and - formats we’d be still split into camps with every DVD drive/media purchase (there wasn’t any obvious dominance in the format camps like with VHS and Bluray). At least when my hard drives get superceded it will be easier to move my data than go through a stack of fading DVDs. Been there done that with two standards of floppies… ;-) DVDs have their place. I just use them for giving photos, etc to other people and use portable HDs for primary storage.
Your HDs also suffer from technological obsolescence. Do you still have a ST-506 controller? Thought not. It’s only because you are copying to newer drives that you don’t notice that you are renewing the data. (And are you absolutely certain you don’t have uncorrected block errors on your HDs?) You can do generational copying with optical media, but over a longer period. I went from floppies to CDs and now on DVDs. When Bluray becomes affordable I will copy the DVDs to that, and hang on to the DVDs for a while. I can give encrypted copies of my DVDs to family and friends to have an offsite backup. I can’t afford to give out portable disks the same way.
I have not lost a single byte from archival quality CDs or DVDs. Not this brand though.
Each media type has it’s pro and cons. None is perfect and you can lose data on any of them. Generational coping can be done with anything if you have enough space. I’m no certain that my HDs have errors that you do with your DVDs but as I said it will be easier to move my data to the next media format from HD rather than with a stack of DVDs. Each have their place and given we use both I don’t see any issue with personal preferences.
It’s actually fairly simple to copy CDs to DVDs. I write a script to read in CDs to a holding directory, feed in the CD when the script asks for it and then burn a DVD from that directory. Something similar can be done with DVDs to BluRay later. And this has only to be done when the new technology becomes available.
CDs and DVDs have stronger forward error correction than HDs as they were designed to withstand abuse like scratches. Also as mentioned, I can give out many copies for offsite backup.
But I have nothing against HD. I have a SAN RAID for holding stuff that I want online, e.g. my music. But I have that backed up on DVDs of course.
ALL SOLD OUT AT HURSTVILLE…thanks to me
bought the last 20 boxes off the shelf
Guys…….great news to report to you. There are PLENTY of them in the Burwood store. They had a sign up stating $4 but I told them it’s $1.95 in Hurstville and they have reduced them (and taken down the $4 sign).
So just go in and get them. Should be around 150+ still available.
Same at Castle Hill Bing Lee, grabbed 2 packs for $2 ea. still a good deal!
Picked some up at Rhodes (NSW) this afternoon. There was about 70 x 10packs left. They are selling them in multiples of 5 x ten packs for $10 (i.e. $2 per 10 pack).
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oh!no bing lee in vic