Anyone using DVD-RAM?

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I was wondering if anyone here has or is using DVD-RAM and if so, could you share your experience?

I bought the T43 laptop this week which came with a Multi Burner+ and it handles DVD-RAM as well. I bought a 9.4GB 2 sided disk with the cartridge and when I used it to burn 1.35 GB of data it too a whooping 35 minutes. I was a bit surprised that it should take this much time as it is a 3x ver 2.1 disk. My setting are for max speed burning and in the bios I have set the drive to be at high speed. :confused:
 
Hi Quad,

Only ever used DVD-RAM to store video from a Panasonic HDD Recorder, but it certainly runs much faster than yours appears to be!

The cartridges I have are double sided with 4.7GB on each surface. I can normally capture video to at at around 10-15 times the actual recorded duration. It does depend slightly upon the video density (ie. Long Play etc) but it should not make that much difference.

Not sure if this info is any use?
 
Thank you for the response :)

Since I posted that message I managed to read a lot on the DVD-RAM and from what I gathered it is a very slow media to record to but extremely stable and reliable. The first time I copied onto the disk it formatted it in the backgroung which I was not aware of and that is the reason it took so much time. It can work with UDF as well as Fat32, with Fat32 format it does not require any burning software but simply works with drag and drop if one is using Windows XP. Just like a large floppy disk and in my case large means 9.4GB :eek:

To format it to Fat32 Windows XP Disk Management tool comes in handy.

What sets this media apart from normal DVD recordable is that it can be erased and rewritten 100,000 times compared to normal DVD+ or - Recordables which are good till 1000 times, theoritically DVD-RAM is 100 times more stable. Very interesting indeed. :)
 
Good info, thx Quad.

Never know when it might come in handy for future projects.
 
DVD-RAM - an excellent candidate for critical backups!

Well here is some basic information on DVD-RAM which everyone should read just for information. Needless to say the attributes of the media makes it a very good candidate for critical backups.:thumb:
 
I used to have a DVD-RAM drive about 3 years ago - I bought it for the reasons you outlined above :) Unfortunately, you can't use a DVD-RAM like a normal floppy that you could boot from and write to within DOS anyway.

My original plan was to use a DVD-RAM disk like a mini hard drive and perhaps even get a working Linux/windows installation running on it and bootable. I wish it did work like that, as that would be great :D
 
I've started using DVD RAM for backups but had to install a driver to get it working drag-n-drop in windows xp. Is this right? Did you have to do anything to get it working with your win-xp?
 
Nope it worked as it is!, What driverand where did you have to download from?
 
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