DVD-RAM discs

[Ioannis Vranos]

Markus Schönhaber wrote:
> 
> Well, in that case it depends on what you mean with "fast" in "fast
> portable media" above. Writing at 3x isn't exactly what I'd call
> "lightning fast". OTOH the kernel does a pretty good job at buffering
> writes, which makes things quite acceptable for me.
> Reading I'd indeed call fast, though.
> So, unless you expect to be able to eject the disk 2 seconds after you
> started copying a few 100 MB to it, you probably should give the
> DVD-RAMs a try. The data safety might be worth it.


I wonder why this technology hasn't caught up yet. It needs no DVD
burning software, all data verification is hardware based (from the DVD
recorder). No K3B or other DVD software packs.