COMPUSA DRU120C DVD Burner $24.99 AR (VALID TODAY ONLY)

[BigdaddyF]

Todays 12 Days of Christmas Offer

What do you think...is this a good deal?

Also I never used DVD RAM before. Is that useful?

Current Rebate:
Regular Retail Price: $69.99
-$25.00 Instant Savings (Valid: 12/22/2006 - 12/22/2006)
You Pay: $44.99 Price after instant rebates, if any
-$20.00 Mfr. Mail-in Rebate (Valid: 11/10/2006 - 2/3/2007)
CompUSA Price: $24.99 Price after instant & mail-in rebates

Sony DVD+/-RW+/-R DVD-RAM CD-RW Drive

 

[coloumb]

Newegg reviews indicate it's a good dvd drive. Not a bad price with MIR. For a few $$$ more, you can get a DL drive with DVD-RAM from buy.com without any MIR.

DVD-RAM: A DVD format wherein DVD-RAM discs can be recorded and erased repeatedly but are only compatible with devices manufactured by the companies that support the DVD-RAM format. DVD-RAM discs are typically housed in cartridges. DVD-R, DVD-RW and DVD-RAM are supported by Panasonic, Toshiba, Apple Computer, Hitachi, NEC, Pioneer, Samsung and Sharp. These formats are also supported by the DVD Forum

DVD-RAM is optical storage that:

Is relatively inexpensive
Holds a large amount of data (4.7GB per side at this writing)
Can be re-written hundreds of thousands of times
Has an expected media life of 30 years
Is bootable
Is really ideal for small system backup

Look like 1 dvd-ram disc costs on average $5.00 per disc.

DVD-RAM reminds me of the old Seagate cartridge drives we used in semiconductor tools..

 

[superHARD]

DVD Ram drives don't all need the cartridge...

 

[Dealbuyer]

Ad Says Not Available In Store... Bummer.