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with the prices of dvd-rw drives coming down, and the fact that a dvd-rw disc has the potential to hold five gigabytes(!) of data, dvd-rw's could very well become the new media of choice for anything. why bother with huge, highly priced hard drives, when you will soon be able to get a dvd-rw for about the price of an 80 GB hard drive, and a 5 GB disc for about $3.50 apiece now (wait 3 months, theyll likely be 2-2.50) here are my calculations.
assuming in 3 months, they are $150 (current price for a decent new DVD burner drive bottoms at $200, and that drops post-holidays). this is the price of a 100 GB hard drive. but now, you can get unlimited numbers of dvd-rw's for say, $2.50 apiece. 100 of these costs $369 now, lets say, $300 by march. so, 500 Gb of data for $450 dollars total. this much money could get you about 300 GB of hard disk space.
the upshot, its portable! you could store huge amounts of data on a small CD, bring it to any computer with a DVD drive (not even a burner, a DVD drive costs about $50), and access the information. this opens up a world of possibilities.
beyond this, mini-cd's (not minidiscs, those are different) are out too. with data compression on the rise, it is not inconceivable that within a year, we will have discs about twice the size of a quarter, than can store 5 GB of data or more. entire libraries of information could be stored in the palm of your hand.
handheld computers are on the way.
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Yeah, I read somewhere that computer technology doubles very very quickly, but I can't remember the approximate speed. If any one knows could they fill me in please.
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once every four years i believe.
i actually mistated. dvd-ram drives can write 9.4 gb of data...price of a drive is about $300. im going to wait until they have dvd-rams that can write to cd-r, rw, and dvd-r and -rws too. right now theyre only dvd-ram capable, but thats always the case for a new hardware piece.
by march, they should have dvd-rams for $200 that are fully compatible with any medium...im going to pick one up. im going to keep a dvd-ram in the drive to save all my schoolwork and misc stuff to, to reduce computer clutter. it actually helps keep the speed up.
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