Thanks Chris, that was an awesome blog 
I just checked some 25 year old floppy disks and they all read and verified with no errors
i actually won some type of award from my school when i was about 10 years old back in 1988,
i did my school project on CDROM's. and my project was called "cd-rom optical storage, the medium of the future!"
i still haev it somewhere in a duotang binder, but it was going on and on about the amazing ability of cdroms to keep doubling + tripling storage capacity beyond that of a normal cd.. which blows me away because if they knew that was possible in 1988...
what else do they know that isnt made public!! being that 1988 was 27 years ago!!!
the real issue with dvd-ram is that they dont want people to use this media, because it doesnt go bad the way normal dvds do, they want us using the crappy ones that u can only use once and then throw out
anyways i still wish i could use normal dvds to copy one file at a time if i wanted to..
i remember there was a system for doing this with windows i think that let u do this drag files to the cd to burn
natively in the os, (seperate from Track at once TAO, or disk at once DAO) using a windows "live filesystem"
http://www.7tutorials.com/how-burn-files-and-folders-disc-windows-explorer http://www.howtogeek.com/126547/htg-explains-live-file-system-vs.-mastered-disc-formats-in-windows/ http://lifehacker.com/391598/live-file-system-turns-blank-discs-into-pseudo-flash-drivesi bet practically none of us uses optical media for incremental backup of small 'mission critical' type data anymore
but yea just pointing out the difference of DVD-ram to using TAO for incremenetal small burning 'tracks' onto a dvd..
dvd-ram is like the ultimate rewritable in that u can erase small portions of the disk and the files are truly erased + space re-claimed.. if u were to erase files frm a normal dvd u lose that amount from the total capacity of the disk obviously.. for backup this could be good tho because the data is technically still there and able to be read if u use a software that is able to select the older track indexes on the disk
the other older technology on windows i was trying to think of a second ago i think was called "packet writing" and this was prevalent back in the windows 98 days i think.. (which was the same time as mac os 9's prevalance)
https://books.google.ca/books?id=VKsAroUnIxsC&pg=PA120&lpg=PA120&dq=packet+writing+windows+98&source=bl&ots=z2SkZhZx6w&sig=DhqotsNJdP9AJdpp2B_3Ma6jw1o&hl=en&sa=X&ved=0CFgQ6AEwCmoVChMIheKhz_ixxwIVCEySCh3BzAFE#v=onepage&q=packet%20writing%20windows%2098&f=falsewhich was cool + new at the time but i guess now its just UDF format disks lol
ive never even had a blueray disc drive
http://www.newegg.ca/Product/ProductList.aspx?Submit=ENE&DEPA=0&Order=BESTMATCH&Description=bd-r&N=-1&isNodeId=165$ canadian for 50 discs.. hey thats not really so bad..
thats less then $2 per 25GB backup..
but thats 1.25 tb of backup but spread over 50 different discs.. hurtin
but the cost isnt so bad.. backing up 100gb of samples/software on 4 BD-Rs..
at a cost of 8$.. is pretty cost effective id say
we really need a new format for backup!!!!!!
if they really did come out with a 300gb optical format..
id be pretty excited about it!
even 100gb would be good.. imagine having 1 TB of data backed up over 10 discs..
or even 8 discs. that would be doable.... 50 discs?? FUGGETABOUTIT
300gb discs would be amazng..
1 TB backups in 3-4 disc sets..
3 TB backups over 10 discs..
i wonder what the price point for the discs would be..
it would have to be about 15$ for a 300gb optical disc..
otherwise noone would buy them if they were more i think
people are too lazy they would just go buy empty hard drives instead
the way most of us have been doing things.. but hard drives die..
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