Computers & Networking

[nytngale · Accepted solution]

If you are using more than 6 CDs to do your backup, or backing up data often, then DVD will be a more economical choice.
Nytngale


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[nytngale]

If you are using more than 6 CDs to do your backup, or backing up data often, then DVD will be a more economical choice. Pardon my horrible spelling in a previous post! iPad and finger issues.

Nytngale


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[MarySue1964]

This isn't really about cost. It's about territory.  My stepfather insists that HIS DVDs are for television recording (or more to the point, HIS television recording) only.  That's why he doesn't want me to touch them.  And he's burned up a lot of DVDs on two VCR/DVD recording devices recording all kinds of different programs on different channels all day.  Not that he's ever actually going to watch all these recorded DVDs any time soon.  After all, he has years worth of recorded VHS tapes stacked all over the house that he's never watched.  Anyway, I got a stack of DVD-R discs on sale for use for computer backup.  I took off the first four DVDs off the stack and put them with HIS DVDs to replace the ones I already took.  That should keep him quiet about me using up HIS DVDs and keep peace in the household.

[RedWyv3 Best Buy Employee]

I hope so.

Next time just post the model of the VHS/DVD recorder and we'll tell you which brand/format seems to work best with it.

[MarySue1964]

The device in the bedroom is an LG RC897T DVD Recorder/Video Cassette Recorder.  The device downstairs on the Zenith console television is a Panasonic DMR-EZ485V DVD Recorder.  Does that help?  I think we've reached an understanding.  I told him he could take as many DVDs off the stack I bought as long as I don't touch his DVDs.  He still complained about how much I spent. I got a pack of Sony DVDs from Staples.  He said "You could have gotten TDK DVDs cheaper from Office Depot!". Maybe so, but there was a Staples near my credit union that I was also going to today.  There aren't any Office Depots located near anywhere else I go.

[SlimJim77]

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MarySue1964 wrote:

This isn't really about cost. It's about territory.  My stepfather insists that HIS DVDs are for television recording (or more to the point, HIS television recording) only.  That's why he doesn't want me to touch them.  And he's burned up a lot of DVDs on two VCR/DVD recording devices recording all kinds of different programs on different channels all day.  Not that he's ever actually going to watch all these recorded DVDs any time soon.  After all, he has years worth of recorded VHS tapes stacked all over the house that he's never watched.  Anyway, I got a stack of DVD-R discs on sale for use for computer backup.  I took off the first four DVDs off the stack and put them with HIS DVDs to replace the ones I already took.  That should keep him quiet about me using up HIS DVDs and keep peace in the household.

The device in the bedroom is an LG RC897T DVD Recorder/Video Cassette Recorder.  The device downstairs on the Zenith console television is a Panasonic DMR-EZ485V DVD Recorder.  Does that help?  I think we've reached an understanding.  I told him he could take as many DVDs off the stack I bought as long as I don't touch his DVDs.  He still complained about how much I spent. I got a pack of Sony DVDs from Staples.  He said "You could have gotten TDK DVDs cheaper from Office Depot!". Maybe so, but there was a Staples near my credit union that I was also going to today.  There aren't any Office Depots located near anywhere else I go.

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Sounds like an episode of Hoarders to me. I'm not a wealthy man, but I dread the day I'm cross-shopping stores for circular plastic disc. And not that it's any of my business, but perhaps it's time to distance yourself from dear old stepdad.

[MarySue1964]

Like men don't get territorial.  My stepfather is an economist so naturally he's all about how much things cost.  When he shops he goes to the places that offer the lowest prices for items regardless of where those places are located.  I go to places that are located near other places I already go.  

[Entropy]

If his discs are Taiyos or other archival-grade media I can understand his territorialism somewhat.

Otherwise, no clue.

As to the above person who stated capacities:

CDs are 700 MB

single layer DVDs are 4.7 GB (4700 MB)

Note that just like hard drives, DVDs and CDs market capacity with the following definitions:

KB = 1000 bytes

MB = 1000 KB

GB = 1000 MB

Operating systems like Windows, however, usually measure capacity with the following definitions:

KB = 1024 bytes

MB = 1024 KB

GB = 1024 MB

Some people have tried to push for the later definitions to use new notation (KiB, MiB, GiB) for the stuff that is 1024-based, but it's not really taking hold, leading to confusion when a 4.7 GB disc only holds around 4.3 GiB.

[nytngale]

I stated that my numbers were approximate, entropy, and I usually use the DVD's that are around 7 GB cause they hold more stuff.

~nytngale

>smiles<