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Verbatim just announced their 8.5GB DVD+R disks will be available "Spring
2004"

On 1/8/04 8:45 AM, "Peter van der Linden" <pvdl at afu.com> wrote:

> 
> On Jan 8, 2004, at 8:15 AM, Doug Mitchell wrote:
> 
>>  my "users folder" ... was about 6 gig so backing up to rewritable
>> CD's is not a good option.  I recently purchased a 120 gig external
>> firewire drive for my digital video files but I don't want to use this
>> space to back up my main hard drive.  I could purchase a rewritable
>> DVD drive or I could purchase another harddrive.
>> The current generation of consumer DVD's only go up to 4.7GB capacity.


> The next generation will go to 9GB, but they won't be available in
> volume for a year or more.  So you need to back up to disk.  The
> alternative is to find some software that can split backups across
> several dvds.  Or to split your data so that no one folder is bigger
> than a single dvd.  That's tiresome - we have computers to keep track
> of that kind of stuff. I recommend you get a cheap external firewire
> disk.  Any capacity in excess of 6GB will do.  A used disk is fine.
> Better, get a couple of used external disks, and rotate them.