01-09-2007, 05:14 PM
DVD-RAM any good any more?
The answer really depends on what you use it for. If you want to burn movies, then no, it's not any good.
For other things, it can be very good. I use it to archive digital pictures. I can use it like a big floppy disk and just add and delete files as needed. For this use though, your old DVD-RAM drive would be pretty painful to use. I started out using the built-in DVD-RAM from my GigE machine (which I believe is a bit faster than your drive), but moved up to a Pioneer DVR-110 flashed to support DVD-RAM. I kept the old drive in an external case since I have some stuff on the older cartridge type DVD-RAM (the kind you can't take out).
Works well for me.
And by the way, the older LF-D111 drives in the Sawtooth only supported the 2.6GB media (not the 4.7GB media). The drive I got in my machine was an LF-D211, which wrote twice as fast and supported the 4.7GB media.
The answer really depends on what you use it for. If you want to burn movies, then no, it's not any good.
For other things, it can be very good. I use it to archive digital pictures. I can use it like a big floppy disk and just add and delete files as needed. For this use though, your old DVD-RAM drive would be pretty painful to use. I started out using the built-in DVD-RAM from my GigE machine (which I believe is a bit faster than your drive), but moved up to a Pioneer DVR-110 flashed to support DVD-RAM. I kept the old drive in an external case since I have some stuff on the older cartridge type DVD-RAM (the kind you can't take out).
Works well for me.
And by the way, the older LF-D111 drives in the Sawtooth only supported the 2.6GB media (not the 4.7GB media). The drive I got in my machine was an LF-D211, which wrote twice as fast and supported the 4.7GB media.