At Tue, 17 Aug 1999 17:47:42 -0700 (PDT),
Matthew Dillon <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
> One thing www.buy.com is really good for, even if you don't buy from them,
> is to get pricing information on a general search. You can then use it
> to do comparison shopping.
>
> http://www.buy.com/
> click on "comp"
> Search for "rewritable"
>
> And there you have it. The smart-and-friendly lists for $460 (yowzer!).
> The older Yahama models (SCSI) list for $325. The lowest cost one
> appears to be the HP or Yamaha IDE versions for $200, too bad FreeBSD
> can't use it under IDE (but personally I think SCSI is the only way to
> go). Hmm. Plexor lists a SCSI one for $268 but I dunno if it works.
> Hi-Val lists a SCSI one ofr $282. Again, dunno if it works.
>
>
> -Matt
For backup, I bought DVD-RAM drive for $400.
5.2GB(double side) media is around $35, you can use them as 2.3GB x 2
disks.
Enabling raw-write in scsi_cd.c, you can newfs/mount DVD-RAM as UFS.
Write speed is around 500KB/s, and read speed is around 1.4MB/s.
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