Which blank DVD Disks to use.

[keith smith]

Thanks for the info.  I'd be happy with 4.7G.  That would be a lot of room for me!

"Eric \"Shubes\"" <plug at shubes.net> wrote: keith smith wrote:
> 
> Hi Everyone,
> 
> I bought a dell to convert to a LAMP development box and it came with a
> NEC DVD+-RW.
> 
> I was looking for DVD's and found DVD+RW and DVD-RW.  Seems most were
> 4.7Gig.
> I was thinking a DVD would hold around 8Gig.

Dual layer is 8G.

> What I would like to do is formate the blank DVD disks and use them to
> do backups.  I used to do this with rewritable CD's.  Formating would
> actually put a file system on them and they would act like a floppy.
> 
>  I'm not sure which DVD's to buy that would be compatible with my drive
> and be able to format to work like a floppy or zip disk.

I don't think it would matter, as your drive apparently handles either (+/-).

I don't know how dual layer relates to +/- and RW though. I expect that
someone here will clarify this.

> Any help is much appreciated.
> Keith
> 
> 
> Keith Smith
> A link from my website to yours
> Submit Your Metro Phoenix Website 
> 


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