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can some explain the practical use of a DVD-RW drive please

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PrineFan

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i see that DVD-RW's are getting to be in vogue on computers....

can someone explain the practical use of these? i can understand you can record tv shows like a vcr-- but wouldn't that be hooked up to the tv set, and not the computer??

i am sure there are uses for dvd-rw's in computers--- just need them explained to me briefly. if anyone can help-- thanks
 
Well naturally the main use is for pirating DVDs, but I'd buy one to use for frequent reliable backup. I wouldn't buy one for the first reason because media is still way too expensive over here in the UK, but I'd get one for backup with just a disk or two if the drives were under £150.

- seb
 
It's great for Ghosting.

If I want to back up my entire OS partition, including the data on it, I only need one DVD-RW disk, rather than several CDs. I'm not particularly trusting of spanning a backup across several discs. What happens when one of them goes bad or you lose one? If nothing else, you don't have to swap discs.
 
Backing up data. Sometimes you have too much data then will fit on a CD.

Or making extra copies of data that you need to have access to quickly sometimes, cause like if you were to use a Tape drive, then the only thing you can usually do is restore EVERYTHIGN, and you can't usually pull individual files off the Tape quickly, DVD-RW allows you to do that.
 


<< Well naturally the main use is for pirating DVDs, but I'd buy one to use for frequent reliable backup. I wouldn't buy one for the first reason because media is still way too expensive over here in the UK, but I'd get one for backup with just a disk or two if the drives were under £150.

- seb >>



Pirating isn't quite possible yet with these things. If I recall, all the existing burners are still single-layer burners, while many DVDs are dual-layer. Because of that, the burner, in the best case senario, wouldn't be able to copy the movie past the point where it switches layers.😱
 
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