At 11:34 PM 6/27/2005, Rick Glazier typed:
Even the version of the packet writing software
can be a BIG problem...
BTW, the Roxio name is/was DirectCD,
http://www.roxio.com/en/support/kb/ecdc/eez000028.jhtml
(BTW, did you mean NOT readable?)
I think you forgot the winky after that line. ;-) Frankly I don't see what
all the hoopla is about being able to drag-n-drop files in Windows Explorer
which IMHO is a terrible file manager. The way I see it you're using one
app to make another work the way that you want & in the mean time that app
takes away from ones system overhead for what, convenience of dragging a
few files over. IMHO that price alone is way too high never mind the severe
lack of compatibility & the 10+ meg of disk space one looses every time
they write to the disk. One could easily have a disk that is full & have
only 400 meg on a 650-700meg disk. Just load up Nero when ever you want to
burn to a removable disk & drag-n-drop all you want.
Why are we talking about Karen's Replicator combined with InCD & Windows
Explorer when Nero does what all those 3 apps combined have a hard time
doing? Sounds like he wants to backup small amounts of data to a disk which
is great but I would think that burning a multi-session disk in Nero would
be easier. Don't know if he has the latest Nero Suite but it includes Nero
Backup that can save file sets for quicker repeated backups just as most
backup programs can. Heck if he wants to backup the same things he can do
that within Nero & save the iso file when it's done.
I also have a low opinion of almost anything RW...
CD-RW, DVD+RW, etc... I have read tons of complaints
on re-writables, and currently have 20-30 "bad" (or flaky)
Memorex 2.4x DVD+RW... (Unfortunately.)
I always treat RW disk with skepticism but CDRW disks these days seem
pretty good. They may have finally gotten that technology right. As we've
discussed before with the mini CDRs & RWs is not all of them hold the same
amount of data. FWIW I have had better luck with DVD-RW disks than I have
DVD+RW disks but according to <http://www.videohelp.com> the later is the
worst as far as compatibility in stand alone players & I also take that to
mean in computers as well.
While CDs & DVDs are great for backing things up to there is very little
that can be automated with them. I have a client that just went out &
bought an external WD HD just for backups at CC which had the 80g drive
with 2 MIRs of $30 which made it almost half price of only $69. This client
has been battling bone cancer & he wants things as easy as he can get them
& loves the one touch backup that the drive can do. I highly would
recommend something like this to anyone
<http://www.circuitcity.com/ssm/Western-Digital-External-Hard-Drive-WDXUB800BBNN-/sem/rpsm/oid/99810/rpem/ccd/productDetail.do>
with a stand alone system.
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Wayne D. Johnson
Ashland, OH, USA 44805
<http://www.wavijo.com>
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