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    RE-Writeable DVDs

    Discussion in 'Windows OS and Software' started by nbn444, Jan 27, 2007.

  1. nbn444

    nbn444 Notebook Geek

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    Are there re-writeable DVDs to use for making large back-ups of data, (music, videos, pictures)?

    And if so, have you found them reliable?

    The reason I ask, is, when I used a re-writeable CD to back up the above, about the 2nd or 3rd back-up I recieved a "DIsk Error" and the BU became toast.

    Since non re-writeable CDs are so cheap, it wasn't a big, except now I have 20+ BU CDs laying around, with only 650M on each one, and blah, blah, blah ...

    So ... I thought maybe just 1 Re-writeable DVD(5 Gig) BU, once a month, and then re-write the next month over the old one :)

    Thanks
     
    nbn444, Jan 27, 2007
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  2. yuio

    yuio NBR Assistive Tec. Tec.

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    mine dvd+rw(4.7gb) work fine and i have used them lots.
     
    yuio, Jan 27, 2007
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