OT: DVD+R DL

Tue Jan 24 20:05:37 PST 2017

Mark,

The WD Blue 500GB m.2 2280 SSD cost me 145.99  this is a big price drop
since last year.

The 4 TB Toshiba with a 128 Mb buffer, 7,200 RPM cost $119.00 .  I remember
paying about $650.oo for a 15 MB hard drive.  Storage has gotten much
cheaper.

As for USB 3 memory sticks, these prices have also dropped.  Most of the
time when I see smallish units they are in multi-packs.  I have no use for
them except if I want to send someone a few files that are too big to email
even when zipped.

Micro Center is selling the 850 EVO series 500 Gb SSD for 169.99 and the 1TB
for 329.99.  these are SATA drives which don't have the same speed ratings
as the M.2 2280 drives.

My next purchase will be a NAS.  That is an interesting animal. I really
only need it for backup purposes for my clients programs and data and some
of my stuff.  Deciding on what to purchase will take some research to come
up with what is cost effective, durable and fast enough on the write end.

Richard

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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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