Time to Purchase a DVD-R?

Evanrude asks: "With DVD writers having significantly come down in price over the past year more companies are coming out with their version of the DVD-R. My company has a large file archive of documents and data that don't necessarily need to be stored on read/write media, but need to be kept online. I want to accomplish this with online DVD storage but is this the right way to go? Who has the best value with the most features of all the DVD-R's on the market? What are some things to look for and things to avoid when purchasing a DVD-R? Is it even time to purchase one, or should I wait another six months?"

Comments

Re:They're nice, but not for you

[steyr_m]

A way off reply....but were you ever in the US Army? I knew a guy with your name in Germany.
dduane at telusplanet dot net

Re:You said it yourself...

[hackerzrus]

"As someone once said, that's the great thing about standards, there are so many of them."

The wonderful thing about standards is that there are so many to choose from. --Admiral Grace Hopper or Andrew Tannenbaum?[A]

[A] It appears the saying even applies to itself! Andrew Tannenbaum wrote this in both editions of Computer Networks, the first of which was published in 1981. However, some evidence indicates that Admiral Hopper first said this in the late 1970s, and the saying is attributed to her by The Unix-Haters Handbook. Tim Salo posed the question on the IETF mailing list in September 1994, and he received a variety of responses, which are summarized at major mailing list archives. (Among many other locations, his summary is archived at this link.)

credit: this link