OT: DVD+R DL

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Erm...dual-layer has existed pretty much since DVDs were around.  Rush Hour 2
was -definitely- on a dual layer DVD, as the PlayStation 2 DVD drive had
issues with the dual layer use at the time.  That movie was released in
2001.

That particular tech is 15+ years old.  :)  Hell, I think we had a
dual-layer-capable burner in our laptop ten years ago.

Thumb drives have definitely gotten cheaper.  I have a 64GB aluminum
one for my car stereo.  I think it cost $15 a couple years ago. :) I
only use it for music, and it's not even close to full.  Nowadays, it's
actually cheaper to get larger storage.  Try finding a -small- thumb
drive for things like bootable rescue images for Macrium Reflect or the
like.  They'll cost you more than larger sticks, in many cases, and they're
actually constructed with inferior materials.  I paid like $20 for an 8GB
(smallest I could find), and it was a large unit made of cheap plastic.  I
far prefer the tiny 64GB aluminum one for $50.

Even SSDs have come down in price.  I recently replaced my SSD and both
spinners, preemptively before they could even start to fail.  My old 512GB
SSD (Samsung EVO 840) was $479 new in 2012.  I just got a 1TB Samsung EVO
850 Pro (gaming grade) for $372.  And that's still SATA.  They have even
newer ones based on a PCI card bus.  I can't remember the standard name,
but it's pretty newish, and I kind of doubt even my gaming board BIOS
supports it.  It might, it might not, but I wasn't taking chances.  You can
also get 6TB spinners for just slightly more than 5TB spinners were six
months ago.  The cost difference was maybe $20 for the extra terabyte, and
the 5TB were basically depleted in the supply chain to Amazon at the time,
probably because of the shift upwards.

mark->

On Wed, Jan 25, 2017 at 02:50:14AM +0000, Richard Kreiss via Filepro-list thus spoke:
> I needed to create an ISO DVD from some Microsoft Action Pack downloads.  The problem is that they are too large for the standard DVD disk
> 
> After checking, I found that there is available  DVD+R DL which is 8.5 Gb double layer recordable disk.  My Roxio DVD burner was able to burn the image.
> 
> My computer has an LG Blu-Ray writer and could easily read the disk.  I now have to see if my standard DVD drive can read this disk as it has Windows Server 2016 burned on it.
> 
> It is interesting to know that there are larger capacity DVD disks available.
> 
> I also purchased, today, a 256GB memory stick.  If memory serves, I think Samsung announced that they will be releasing a 1TB memory stick.  I remember my Tandy Model II using 450KB 8" floppy disks.  At least the technology writers are no longer writing "who need 1Tb of storage" or should I write "Who needs 15Mb of storage".
> 
> My current system has a 250GB SSD boot drive, and internal 1TB drive and an eSata 1TB drive which is almost full.  I am adding a 4TB internal drive and a 500GB M.2 2280 SSD to my system.  My next decision will be to partition the 4TB drive or leave it a 4TB.
> 
> 
> Richard Kreiss
> GCC Consulting
> 
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