DVD RAM anybody?

[lafrosty]

Anybody using DVD RAM for storage? If so hows it going? Pros & Cons? Thanks

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[Gary Stadler]

I purchased one in an effort to back up my current CD project...it came with some HORRIBLE thing called "DVD tuneup" for software...in all, after taking two hours trying to back up a simple 4 gig drive, getting errors every 5 minutes telling me that a file was corrrupt, in use, etc, I packed the thing up and sent it back. Perhaps many people are using them, but it was a very bad experience for me.
I ended up buying a 50 gig SCA LVD U2W seagate cheetah drive off of ebay for $650, jumpering it into "single-ended" mode, getting a little SCA-to-50 pin narrow adapter from CS electronics (recommended by seagate) and putting on the internal scsi bus of my 9600/350...works like a champ!!!

[noles01]

I too have been investigating DVDRAM as a backup solution. What I know from users that have them is that right now they are very slow. Look for those speeds to increase certainly by the end of the year. The media is about $30-$40 dollars for 5.2 gigs. I don't do a lot of backup but what I do can be done overnight so the speed doesn't bother me right now. I plan on buying a DVDRAM with Retrospect software in the next few months.