[MPA] STEVE JOBS IS GOD

[Peter Kirn]

On Thursday, January 9, 2003, at 12:57 PM, Lance Trickey wrote:

> IHMO, DVD-RW is a waste of time. I can buy DVD-R for $4 each and in 8 
> months they'll be < $2.
>
> the time that it takes to erase one of those suckers is worth $4 , and 
> soon much less, to just toss it in the trash and get a fresh one off 
> the spindle.

Not if you're doing regular project backups to DVD-RW. Just let the 
copying run in the background in that case. That'd get mighty expensive 
if you want to backup your audio projects every evening, for instance. 
DVD-RW is terrific for that.

Hopefully we'll see the same price and performance improvements in 
writable DVDs that we saw in writable CDs -- no idea here of the 
technical challenges, I'm not an engineer, but I can hope! In the 
meantime, DVD-R and DVD-RW are both great solutions for the time being. 
Combine DVD archiving/backup with HD backup and you have a fantastic 
data transfer routine, on the cheap!

Peter Kirn