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From: John Turco on 14 Jun 2008 00:19
Arno Wagner wrote:
>
> I have done some quality assessment of two DVD-RAM capable
> DVD-burners with four different DVD-RAM brands. As there may be
> public interest, find my results and conclusions below.
>
> Note that DVD-RAM do all use the same meterial and disk
> characteristics (supposedly), not the dye-madness used in
> DVD+/-R. This means the results should not depend (too much) on
> the burner firmware.

<heavily edited for brevity>

Hello, Arno:

Good work! Personally, I've only employed Maxell and Panasonic
DVD-RAM media, thus far (around five years or so). My "burners"
have been the following (internal ATAPI) models:

Panasonic SW-9571 (OEM)

LG Electronics GSA-4120B

LG Electronics GDR-8161B

In reality, I've hardly ever done much DVD (or CD) recording,
of any type. My overwhelmimg preference, for regular backups,
has long been external hard disks.

Furthermore, these optical formats can be rather frustrating,
at times. They tend to be fussy about lengthy file paths, in
my experience; that's discouraged me from using DVD-RAM, more
often, as a matter of fact.


Cordially,
John Turco <jtur(a)concentric.net>
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