Text 49664, 53 rader
Skriven 2008-10-05 16:50:34 av Alan Zisman (1:123/789.0)
  Kommentar till text 49662 av August Abolins (1:123/789.0)
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August Abolins -> ED VANCE wrote:
 AA> ED VANCE -> JEAN PARROT said the following
 AA>  on 9/28/2008 11:31 PM:
 EV>> My brother lent me his Aspire notebook, and I had it for a few days
 EV>> The Users Guide says it is for the Aspire 5715Z/5315 Series.

 EV>> IIRC it says the HDD is 160GB, but I found it split into two 68.xGB
 EV>> partitions, the D: partition was called DATA and it only had a few MBs
 EV>> in it, everything else was on the C: drive.

 EV>> I didn't like that.

 EV>> It reads DVDs and CDs but only writes to CDs.

 AA> I'm looking at the same model. It is specifically model 5315-2492. But
 AA> mine claims to burn to DVDs as well as CDs using its "DVD Super Multi
 AA> DL" drive (which is a Matshita UJ870QJ DVD-RAM).   DVD-RAM doesn't sound
 AA> like a "regular" DVD burner to me.  But we'll see in a moment...

 AA> Can anyone here tell me if this Matshita DVD-RAM is more hassle than it
 AA> is worth?

 AA> This one also splits the hdd into two equal partitions.


See the wikipedia article:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/DVD-RAM

DVD-RAM is yet another recordable DVD format, alongside the more common DVD+R
and DVD-R.

It notes some advantages to the format over competing formats but notes the
following disadvantages:

Less compatibility than DVD+RW and DVD-RW, despite predating both formats (as
noted above).
12x media is reportedly available at Audio Cubes II in the USA. It is not
reportedly available in Europe. 16x media may not be available anywhere except
manufacturers' R&D laboratories.
DVD-RAM media have always been more expensive than other types of DVD. For
example, in May 2008, single 4.7GB DVD+RW or DVD-RW are available for slightly
less than US$0.30, whereas the least expensive 4.7GB DVD-RAM was US$1.33. [4]
DVD-RAM writing will be slower than DVD+RW and DVD-RW until 12x DVD-RAM media
becomes available.

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