Two 5.25" Drives In An Old G4 or B&W G3 Tower

[Tom Kirshbaum]

> Radical difference. DVD-RAM is a dead format but for those of use who
> have the drives and a bit of media. iDVD won't recognize it as the
> optical it needs to even launch. You can not burn DVD Player discs with
> the old DVD-RAM. It's strictly for data and you can add and delete to
> it like a hard drive.

Let me rephrase:

What will the DVD-RAM do that the 105 won't do? (Not vice-versa).

For example, I use the DVD-RAM only for backing up weekly, using Retrospect
(desktop) for incremental backups. Retrospect keeps adding to a disk until
it is full, then continues on the next disk. It's economical, and allows be
to go back and grab a file just before it got corrupted.

Any reason I can't do that with the 105, using RW disks?

I just upgraded to Retrospect 5.0. It claims:

> Supports new backup devices, including DVD-R, DVD-RW, and Apple's SuperDrive.

So, can I make ongoing, incremental backups with the 105 and RW media, just
as on the DVD-RAM? If not, that would be my only reason for keeping the
DVD-RAM at all.

Tom