On Thu, Aug 31, 2017 at 7:41 AM, Wols Lists <antlists@youngman.org.uk> wrote:
On 30/08/17 23:08, Anton Aylward wrote:
I've commented a number of times on how easy it is to arrange stuff for backup onto 5G DVDs:
9G DVDs aren't that expensive, either, although it seems easier to buy a 9G drive than 9G media :-)
My quick investigation into tape backup, though, concluded that - for the home user at least - it was prohibitively expensive.
Are 9GB reliable now? 8 or 9 years ago: I could burn the first layer of data on a 5GB or 9GB DVD and have great reliability. But 9GB media invoke a second layer of recording media. As soon as I started trying to put 7 or 8 GB of data on a DVD, my reliability rates went in the toilet. I bought multiple different brands of drives and media. I never achieved even close to a 80% success rate at being able to read back in the data I wrote. ======== At some point I gave up and have ignored the ability to write to the second layer of DVD media. If I need over 5GB now, I use a Blu-Ray drive and media. Greg -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org To contact the owner, e-mail: opensuse+owner@opensuse.org