Re: Best Recommended DVD Writer

> I posted about four months ago to ask if the time was right to change from
> CD to DVD for long-term backups (five years at least). The long-thread
> which developed primarily established that it was, as long as caution was
> widely employed to check the backups thoroughly as well as each backup
> appearing on multiple disc (with different writing media for each).

Backups? Do you really mean backups, or archiving? I assume archiving.

> I've now decided to buy a DVD-Burner for this purpose to replace my
> current CD-Writing drive. Can anybody suggest or recommend a drive for
> this purpose? The following criteria are particularly important to me.
>
> * Wide compatibility with DVD media

You will still need to check your new media batch, to develop some trust in
it. Then buy bigger volume of the same blank DVD stock.
DL media becoming cheaper. But it will be still more than a year (my guess)
until it will threaten SL price/GB cost.

> * Writing quality
> * Multi-standard support (i.e -/+ R/RW, DVD-RAM would be useful too, along
> with other standards. I'm sure all drives do this already, but CD-R/RW
> support is very useful, since I won't have another drive for it. ).
> * As future proof as possible, I don't intend to change it for 18 months
> or so if I can help it.

As long as media is available and you keep the same procedures, they should
work until they die.

> The following drives were suggested to me at the time. However,
> DVD-Writers have moved on at least a generation since then, so most of the
> drives below are not sold at the places I usually purchase things.
>
> Benq 1620, Nec 3520, LG 4163, Pioneer 108, Pioneer 109

Yes, that is quite old list.
Nec 3540, LG 4167, Pioneer 110D work fine for me.

BTW, I wouldn be spending much time on research, unless I would have a
volume of more than 500 DVDs per year.
I don't. What about you?


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