[CentOS] OT: cheap DVD-RAM media?
Peter Farrow
peter at farrows.org
Fri Aug 5 15:06:03 UTC 2005
MO = "Magneto Optical"
http://www.usbyte.com/common/MOsystems.htm
duffmckagan wrote:
>On 8/5/05, Bryan J. Smith <b.j.smith at ieee.org> wrote:
>
>
>
>>In general, avoid DVD-RW, DVD+RW and DVD+R for backups if you are
>>worried about longevity. Especially DVD-RW and DVD+RW (which _are_ MO-
>>based, despite marketing to the contrary) because of the error rates of
>>MO. DVD-RAM mitigates this with a write-after-verify.
>>
>>
>>
>>
>
>Can you tell me what does MO-based mean?
>
>
>
-------------- next part --------------
An HTML attachment was scrubbed...
URL: <http://lists.centos.org/pipermail/centos/attachments/20050805/02847a6a/attachment.html>
More information about the CentOS
mailing list