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Here is my DVD-RW/ -R/ +RW/ +R/- RAM FAQ (Posted @ AnandTech)

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Here is my DVD-RW/-R/+RW/+R/-RAM FAQ.

For those of you who don't know, I bought the Panasonic LF-D311, which is a DVD-RAM/DVD-R combo drive. This drive suits my needs which are primarily data, and IMHO DVD-RAM is at this time best for data under both Windows and Mac OS. I use my drive like a Zip drive, with UDF 1.5 formatted discs cross-compatible under Win XP (with extra drivers) and Mac OS X for both reads and writes. (Windows XP does DVD-RAM read/write natively only with FAT32.)

However, most people are probably going to be more interested in either DVD-RW or DVD+RW. IMO it's 6 of one and a half dozen of the other. Right now DVD-R/-RW has the most widespread support, but the next versions of DVD+RW drives will have Mt. Rainier support. (Note that currently shipping DVD+RW drives do not support Mt. Rainier and may not be able to be updated to support it either.)

If you get a DVD-RAM drive, I'd advise getting one that supports 4.7 GB DVD-RAM and also supports DVD-R burning. The drives that also do DVD-RW aren't out yet, but they're coming.

If you get a DVD-RW drive, I'd advise getting one that burns DVD-R at 2X.

If you get a DVD+RW drive, I'd advise getting only a 2nd generation drive, because only these support DVD+R burning. 1st generation drives do not.

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Thanks to AndyHui and AT for giving me the opportunity to post the FAQ.
 
A well written and informative FAQ, thank you.

In addition, if you are still unsure of which type of drive to get, you are probably better off
saving your money right now and waiting for more reports and reviews about the technologies.

Besides, if you do decide to get one, you'll need extra money to buy all the media you want to
burn stuff to.

 
Thanks for bumps. 😉

By the way, for now the linked user for the author of the FAQ is the wrong Eug so if you send him an email, he'll gonna be wondering why. 😛
 
Just felt like bumping this.

For some reason people keep requesting an article about this in the suggestion box when it already exists.
 
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