SCSI CD-RW - any recomendations?

[alexh]

How about a DVD-RW or DVD-RAM drive. 9Gbytes of RW media is surely better than 700Mbyte?

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[alexh]

Kin-Hell wrote:
Yeah, but DVD-RAM Media! It's just old hat now even by the Amiga's standard.

And yet you can still buy it everywhere. Even in PCWorld and my local Tescos.

http://svp.co.uk/category/dvd_minus_ram

For backup purposes it's fine plus the media will probably last longer. Some DVD-RAM drives also read/write CD-RW so IMHO they are a good buy. A better buy than a SCSI CD-RW drive. Just be-aware of cartridge based ones.

A SCSI DVD-RW drive would be preferable but then you're gonna pay a lot more for one.

EDIT: You could always use an IDE DVD-RW with a SCSI->IDE adapter.

[alexh]

Kin-Hell wrote:
'Tis the write speed though! - Grim at best!  :sleep:

DVD-RAM 1x (i.e. 1385KiB/s) is close to the maximum you are going to get out of an A3000 or ZII Amiga SCSI card.

[alexh]

If you get an A-Card one, try to update to the latest firmware before using with ATAPI devices. (You'll need access to a PC SCSI card to do so)

[alexh]

To me a DENEB + USB DVD-RW seems a lot of money to burn a few disks.

Wouldn't any speed benefits of a Deneb be negated by the speed of your hard drive? Unless you had a USB hard drive too or a Cyberstorm PPC/MKIII UW SCSI 3.