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how much IP can you fit it 625GB?? . A LOT more than $50.... They can hire all the cops and snoops they want, these guys are getting nowhere. The agenda to kill off copyright law is, unfortunately for these guys, clearly set and fully adhered to by everyone -- ignore it. It's a perfect strategy, as it simply lets the law stand, but makes it irrelevant. It's a perfect mass movement joining millions and millions of dedicated people, with almost no coordination needed. The copyright war isn't over yet, but the battles ahead are mere formalities, it's hopeless.

http://www.supermediastore.com/product/u/epson-r260-r380-rx580-ink-combo-t078120-t078220-t078320-t078420-rem-4pk?max=15&search=Epson+RX595&offset=0 You can find much better deals on ink. 4 pack remanufactured for $23.99.

You can buy Taiyo-Yuden media at...

http://www.supermediastore.com/

That's where I got mine. I haven't had a bad burn yet.

The issue is not bad burns that happen now, but what the quality of the pits / bits are in 5-10 years.

You can buy Taiyo-Yuden media at...

http://www.supermediastore.com/

That's where I got mine. I haven't had a bad burn yet.

As far as prices are concerned, I think that SD cards or USB flash drives are more likely to overtake Blue-ray's place in the world.
A quick search turns up that a single recordable 50GB blank blu-ray disk (blank) costs somewhere around $47, and a spindle of 50 25GB disks costs something like $996 - about $20 a disk.

I don't collect movies, but if I did, I would be most concerned that chip based storage technology is going to overtake the clunky optical-mechanical drives and leave me with a (yet again) obsolete media library.

I can buy 8GB USB memory sticks for $16 bucks now, and even 16Gb sticks for under $40 from Here for example, which are rewritable and a lot more indestructible (no scratch worries), why would I want a blu-ray drive for data storage? I can see USB memory sticks, SD cards or some other kind of chip based data storage making optical drives obsolete in the very near future. I dont know how many disks I have lost from scratches, or CD or DVD drives have ended up breaking or going out of alignment over the years - but I know its a lot more than is acceptable to me, and I personally cant wait to kiss optical drives goodbye for good. It is a technology that belongs in the 20th century.

http://www.supermediastore.com/ sells them. I use Taiyo Yuden DVD-Rs for all of my important backups and archives.

These folks have more kinds of cd/dvd holders than you could possible need.

Cyberguys doesn't carry the 80mm paper sleeves for miniCD/DVD-Rs, but do carry a six-in-one DVD case as well as the four-packs. Some of the stuff they carry can be found cheaper elsewhere (even ThinkGeek, in some cases!), but there's enough unique-and-cheap stuff there that it's on my regularly visited tech shopping bookmarks.

Now take one of those DVDs and run Nero's CD-DVD Speed on it.

I used to use Fujifilm all the time, because they used Taiyo-Yuden. Then they switched to Ritek, and I unknowingly bought a spindle. The first clue that something was wrong was that things played and copied from the DVD at inconsistent speeds. And then a couple were completely faulty and cut out 100's of MBs of data, randomly. So I ran CD-DVD Speed's Disc Quality on it and got spikes of errors everywhere, and the maximum read spead varied from 2x to 14x (this is a 16x DVD, too). Even on some of the Ritek DVDs that don't have too many errors, the speed on them is inanely inconsistent.

So I bought some Taiyo-Yuden DVDs from http://www.supermediastore.com/ and tried them out. I've not gotten any bad discs from Taiyo, yet (though some people have reported bad Taiyo-discs, but nevertheless, the occurrence rate is leagues underneath that of other companies). And the speeds are very consistent. The speeds start (on my 8x Taiyo-Yuden DVD+Rs) at ~7x in the inside of the DVD, and the speed linearly increases, without any spikes at all, up to about ~12-14x on the outside of the DVD (again, these are 8x DVDs).

In anycase, I've had numerous bad experiences with Ritek DVDs since then. My cousin's computer refuses to burn 16x Ritek DVD-Rs at anything more than 2.4x, and occasionally those go bad, too. I've never had a problem with Taiyo-Yuden.

http://www.supermediastore.com/super-talent-super- flash-16gb-ide-flash-drive.html

16GiB IDE flash drive for $500.

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While cleary ludicrously expensive, USB pen drives hold MORE - not less than both CDs and DVDs. Here is the first store I found: http://www.supermediastore.com/16gb-usb-flash-driv e-pen-drives.html

Funny, I also carry a thumb-drive with a removable memory card slot. It's this generic one floating around online: http://www.supermediastore.com/supermedia-handy-4i n1--usb-20-flash-memory-card-reader-yellow.html

I think they're a great idea, because I can move with the SD card market as flash memory becomes denser and denser. Speed hasn't been a problem, either. The thumbdrives support USB 2.0 and my SD card seems to be capable of a very decent data transfer rate.

I have a collection of Windows tools on the drive. Not Linux tools, because I can usually accomplish whatever it is I'm doing in the Linux environments I encounter day to day.

Network Tools:
* Raw TCP/IP transfer -> netcat ( http://www.vulnwatch.org/netcat/ )
* SSH/Telnet -> putty ( http://www.chiark.greenend.org.uk/~sgtatham/putty/ )
* Port Scanner -> SuperScan4 ( http://www.foundstone.com/resources/proddesc/super scan.htm )
* Classic Port Scanner -> nmap ( http://insecure.org/nmap/download.html )
* Packet Capture and Analysis -> WireShark setup ( http://www.wireshark.org/download.html )

Editors:
* General -> vim 7.0 ( http://www.vim.org/download.php )
* Hex Editor -> xvi32 ( http://www.chmaas.handshake.de/delphi/freeware/xvi 32/xvi32.htm#download )

Development:
* Tiny C Compiler ( http://fabrice.bellard.free.fr/tcc/ )
* nasm ( http://sourceforge.net/project/showfiles.php?group _id=6208 )

Misc:
* Lightweight Windows md5sum -> md5summer ( http://www.md5summer.org/download.html )
* Process Explorer ( http://www.sysinternals.com/Utilities/ProcessExplo rer.html )
* MP3 Encoding -> RazorLame with lame ( http://www.dors.de/razorlame/download.php )
* Terminal Emulator -> TeraTerm Pro ( http://hp.vector.co.jp/authors/VA002416/teraterm.h tml )

The folder is 26.7MB.

How do you scan them in now? Do you put them in an automatic machine, do you have humans sitting there doing the work, etc?

However they come out of the scanning process should direct how to store them.

If you've got humans doing the work then put them back in the jewel case, and drop the case into a filing box that you can store on shelving. Mark that box with a large barcoded sticker. Every week scan all the boxes, and have the system beep when you scan a box due for disposal. Dump the contents into the secure shed bin, and put the box on the pile of empties for new projects.

If you do the scanning automatically,a nd simply have a human de-casing the disc and putting them on a spindle or stack, then buy spindle carriers that can pick up the spindle or stack on the output side and drop the entire thing into a suitably sized box, then do the same as above. (I'd probably go this route anyway rather than the storage in jewel case and big box above).

Look for "cake boxes" that are really spindle CD/DVD boxes, such as the following: cake boxes

Are the CDs/DVDs in small batches or big batches? ie, do you have to store 5 of them together, or 500 together? Is there a great variance (do you accept both customers that give 5 and customers that give 500?).

If you want to spend tens of thousands of dollers then a good engineering firm can design a system that you just feed discs into. It'll then scan them for you, store them, and on regular intervals shred those that have been authorized for shredding. Should take up the space of a large closet or small cubicle for a storage capacity of 5,000 or so discs, and scanning capacity of a few hundred per hour.

-Adam

Sorry, everybody. I just did a little research and found a very cool answer.

Yes, there is. 16 gigs to be exact. Costs $499.00, though.

You can find it below if interested.

http://www.supermediastore.com/flashdrive-16gb-usb -20-usb-flash-drive.html

FYI - I regularly purchase 50-packs of DVD-R and DVD+R discs for less than $20 US. I often times can find them on sale for $15.

That brings the price down to a bit less than "a bit less than $1 US".

If you shop at SuperMediaStore.com you can find dual-layer (A.K.A DVD-9, A.K.A. DVD+R DL) blanks for as little as $5.50 each (Qty 5 or greater). In another 6 months, DVD-9 prices should be down closer to DVD-5 prices. At least I hope so...

Not trying to call you out, just pointing out that your prices a little out of date.

Contrast this with a hard-drive-based storage solutions which are comparatively extremely fragile. Now, this isn't to say that I'm not going to purchase a HD-based device for a month-long trip this summer, but the cards are vastly more durable, just not as big or as cheap/GB.

If I were to go traveling without my laptop, I'd go for a standalone photo CD burner, say... (/Google: photo CD burner/)... the Apacer CP200 Combo Photo CD Burner I'd make two copys of my photos, double check the burn and probably post one copy home.

With my laptop I normally make a CD copy and when possible upload the data to my Home PC (free wireless at hotels is drifting towards the norm)

$50? Might as well get one of these for $99 :)

Yeah, who in their right mind would possibly want to pay half price for something?

Seriously, "Informative"? WTF? Here is a link to a similar but cheaper product (see here to get this thing for even less). Do I get modded "Informative" now? Or do mods actually think that informing us that such products exist is actually news? Simple screenless flash mp3 players have been around for a while, folks. Apple didn't invent them just this week.

I'm thinking that if they offered this for cheaper than what we pay now, they would get some sales. For example, I don't like paying around $1 per blank dvd but that's about what I pay. I can get a stack of 50 for $40 and with tax it comes to maybe $.83 or so... but that's three times more than I feel they are worth. I would be quite happy paying $.25 each and would buy a lot more than I do. But even at $.75 I would consider switching and I think a lot of other people would.

According to the article, the new media will be more expensive than current media:

The VCTS scheme will also be built into next-generation media, which will slowly replace the non-DRM encoded DVD+R discs over time. The new discs will be somewhat more expensive than their DRM-free counterparts, explained Jun Ishihara, a product manager for Mitsubishi Chemical Media Co., also known as Verbatim. Likewise, the new players will probably be priced somewhat higher than conventional players, HP executives said, although pricing will be up to individual manufacturers.

SuperMediaStore and Meritline represent pretty much the cheapest places to safely buy large quantites of high-quality media (read: Ridata, et cetera).

So, if you've got something important to burn, and it's 8.5G in size, it better be $20 important, you'd better not accidentally make a coster, and don't forget to pay your VAT if you're in one of those countries.

Also, the dual-layered NEC2510A runs about $79 (or cheaper!) at NewEgg.

The only problem is that it only has 1MB of ram and the cartridges are extraordinarily expensive ($150 for a 13 year old 1MB ram cartridge, wtf?)

Is this $45 module what you are looking for? Here is a good deal on toner cartriges.

I just got a used Laserjet 4 for a song myself, and I am very happy with "old iron" :-)

Haven't wasted a minute since I don't use overpriced RW discs.

Put another way: barely any DVD players support RW discs of any format. That is why I use DVD-R: I don't like wasting time or money.

Then there's the issue of loading the drives. With small tape changers, you could load them up with a days worth at a time, or you can pay someone to physically change tapes every couple hours.

Of course, I work at a place where we used to run 32 Exabyte tapedrives in parallel to take data for experiments. But we had Graduate Students (read Slave Labor) to change tapes every two hours on shift...