DVD+RW or DVD RAM

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I'm the proud owner of a new LG GSA 4163 drive.

What type of DVD media is best to use? DVD+RW or DVD RAM?

What advantanges and disadvantages are there to either media?

Thanks.
 
Paul said:
I'm the proud owner of a new LG GSA 4163 drive.

What type of DVD media is best to use? DVD+RW or DVD RAM?

What advantanges and disadvantages are there to either media?
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DVD-RAM major advantage is that it's designed specifically to be used as a
data storage medium and so works reliably when treated as just another
disk. It's major disadvantage is that the media is expensive compared with
DVD+RW.
 
What do you plan to do with it?

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Paul said:
I'm the proud owner of a new LG GSA 4163 drive.

What type of DVD media is best to use? DVD+RW or DVD RAM?

What advantanges and disadvantages are there to either media?

Thanks.
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Hello, Paul:

I own the similar GSA-4120B and haven't installed it, yet. Meanwhile, my
Panasonic SW-9571 can read/write DVD-R, DVD-RW and DVD-RAM.

In any case (pun intended), DVD-RAM is the obvious choice, where storage
is concerned. It boasts superior error-correction capabilities (for
data), and more convenience, as the disc can be accessed as readily
as a hard drive or floppy. (That is, unlike other DVD formats, DVD-RAM
requires no "packet writing" software, in order to achieve its HDD
functionality.)

Conversely, DVD-RAM has very sparse compatibility with the vast majority
of DVD players and recorders (both stand-alone models and PC-based
ones). Panasonic and a mere handful of additional manufacturers have
been its only backers, thus far.

Therefore, if this is an issue for you, personally, DVD+RW would be the
better option, in most instances. I, myself, tend to favor DVD-RAM, as
my Panasonic DMR-E50P stand-alone recorder uses it (along with DVD-R),
but, not DVD-RW, DVD+RW or DVD+R.

Good luck!


Cordially,
John Turco <[email protected]>
 
Isn't DVD-RAM also out dated??

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Q said:
Isn't DVD-RAM also out dated??
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In what way? There's nothing else that quite does the same job. Just wish
they were more popular so the media cost would come down.
 
Don't think so. AFAIK, DVD-RAM is technically the superior format, but
doesn't seem to have the support. A bit like Betamax versus VHS and the
upcoming Blu-Ray versus HD-DVD battle we can all look forward too.


Q said:
Isn't DVD-RAM also out dated??
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SNIP
 
Piers said:
Don't think so. AFAIK, DVD-RAM is technically the superior format, but
doesn't seem to have the support. A bit like Betamax versus VHS and the
upcoming Blu-Ray versus HD-DVD battle we can all look forward too.
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Except that it's not mutually exclusive. Lot of drives out there that will
merrily read and write DVD+/-, dual layer, _and_ DVD-RAM. Just wish enough
people would _use_ it to get the price of the media down.
 
J. Clarke said:
Piers James wrote:




Except that it's not mutually exclusive. Lot of drives out there that will
merrily read and write DVD+/-, dual layer, _and_ DVD-RAM. Just wish enough
people would _use_ it to get the price of the media down.
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Which burners out there can also burn DVD-RAM? The most of them I see
out there are DVD+/- only, with more of them also having dual-layer
(which is a form of DVD+ anyways).

Yousuf Khan
 
At least LG GSA-4163B


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Yousuf said:
Which burners out there can also burn DVD-RAM? The most of them I see
out there are DVD+/- only, with more of them also having dual-layer
(which is a form of DVD+ anyways).
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Just about all of the multimode LGs handle DVD-RAM, including the one in my
cheap laptop.
 
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