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Need advice for storage solution... Like to hear from you guys with 10X RW drives!!

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maxSe

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Hi. Here's my dillema(sp?). I've recently switched my main system to all SCSI, spending much money that I didn't even think I had... 😉 Now the basic system is up, but I still haven't settled on my storage solution. After hours (well, days actually...) thinking about this, I came to two options:

1. Get a large IDE HD (something along the line of 40+ gigers)
OR
2. Buy a bunch of 10X CDRW's.. (a part of my upgrades included the new Plex12x10x32 CDRW 🙂)

It'll be used for mostly my collection of programs, mp3's, por..uh.. personal files. Is the new 10x RW's viable option? I haven't had a chance to pick up a 10x RW media yet, so I don't really know how they are, and we all know how painfully slow the 4x RW can be at times... 🙂

Any thoughts? suggetions? flames? All welcome! (flames *might* be ignored, btw)
Thanks again guys.

 
If you have a portable CD player or car stereo cd player get the media....if not go with a nice big 40or45 5400RPM gigger.

Regards,
-Xzaver-

EDIT: I'm looking for A New CD-RW drive myself , I just can't decide what to get! , I see this new 16x10x40x drive , but everyone is talking about this 12x10x40x drive , whats going on here!!!
 
Xzaver, I know... That Yamaha 16x10x40 looks sweeeeet... but, it's only available in IDE right now... I needed something in SCSI and when I got mine, I think it was the fastest one among SCSI drives...

Go with either Plextor, Yamaha or HP in burners (only ones I've ever owned) and you won't be sorry, although my personal fav is the Plex... 😀
 
just use regular cdrs ... no need to get the rws ... 12x media is like ... 10 to 15 bucks for like 50 cds ...
 
Your question is uncleear. I take it you mean "backup solution" because it's crazy to actually run programs off CDRW these days.
I have a 4x CDRW but never really liked it for much backup. I use it for Microsoft backup single files because it takes a while for directories to appear with CDRW, and I only use 1 CDRW as backup for my essential files.
You may find the 530Mb limit of CDRW problematic. CDRW is twice as much as CDRs. Basically, I don't recommend CDRW for big files or *lots!* of files to backup. I would like two smaller HDs, like 20-30Gb, personally.
 
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