You can get DVD-RAM disks that can be removed from the cartridges and be read in most DVD-ROM drives.
I gotta tell you though, it's slow as molasses in January to copy stuff to it though. It takes about an hour to copy over a couple of gigs worth of stuff.
But, for $99 its not a bad deal. I got mine free (shhh) so can't complain.
I got a DVD-RAM drive in my G4/500 DP. Bought one 4.7 GB (one-sided) disk. I put a bunch of stuff on it that I wanted to keep around for a while, took it out of the cartridge (as to make it not rewriteable) and now use it in my Ti PB as an archive of stuff I like to keep around, but not necessarily on the hard drive.
Unfortunately, the disk was so much more expensive than the equivalent size of CD-rs that I just stick with them now. Pretty much a needless technology as far as I'm concerned. I'd sell it and get an internal combo drive if it would sell for anything. But it won't.
BTW-it's not THAT slow. 1.32 GB takes about 10 to 11 minutes. Capacity on these is 4.7 GB per side. Max it will take is around 40 minutes to fill the disc. Not exactly speedy, but not slow either.
BTW2-I got my single-sided 4.7 GB disc on eBay for $16 after shipping. So you can figure out how much it would cost for 4.7 GB worth of CD-rs (or, I suppose matching features on the DVD-RAM, you would use CD-RWs). I don't know what they run now, but probably it's about the same.
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You can get DVD-RAM disks that can be removed from the cartridges and be read in most DVD-ROM drives.
I gotta tell you though, it's slow as molasses in January to copy stuff to it though. It takes about an hour to copy over a couple of gigs worth of stuff.
But, for $99 its not a bad deal. I got mine free (shhh) so can't complain.
Unfortunately, the disk was so much more expensive than the equivalent size of CD-rs that I just stick with them now. Pretty much a needless technology as far as I'm concerned. I'd sell it and get an internal combo drive if it would sell for anything. But it won't.
-Ender
BTW2-I got my single-sided 4.7 GB disc on eBay for $16 after shipping. So you can figure out how much it would cost for 4.7 GB worth of CD-rs (or, I suppose matching features on the DVD-RAM, you would use CD-RWs). I don't know what they run now, but probably it's about the same.
-Ender