DVD-RW vs. Tape Drive

owensdj

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Jul 14, 2000
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What are the advantages and disadvantages of doing nightly backups using a DVD-RW drive rather than using a tape drive? Assume that the backup size will fit on the 4.7GB DVD media.

Now that the price of DVD rewriter drives has dropped, I was thinking it might be a good replacement for a tape drive in some situations.