Am I the only one who still uses DVD-RAM?

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Nope. I haven't burned a CD or DVD for storage purposes since I got my first flashdrive in 2006.
 
Single layer DVDs only hold 4.7GB, so in this day and age they are basically useless, especially with 128GB+ flash drives being relatively cheap. Even Blu-Ray has it's limited uses, although I did backup my data to Blu-Ray using at least 15 discs a year ago as a fail-safe backup.
 
think you mean dvd-rom,thats your burner.i still burn the odd dvd and still like my music on cd,but burn a quarter of what i did 5 years ago.
 
Can DVD-RAM be used as actual RAM memory? Like, alongside my current RAM sticks, can DVD-RAM be used as RAM too?
 
I'm trying to think of a good analogy for this. Unfortunately I cannot think of anything right now.


In the end, no. Even if it could it would be way too slow.
 
voyagerfan99 said:
I'm trying to think of a good analogy for this. Unfortunately I cannot think of anything right now.


In the end, no. Even if it could it would be way too slow.
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You need to move a 10,000 sq foot warehouse across the country.
You are given a red Radio Flyer wagon.
Good luck.
 
The VCR King said:
Can DVD-RAM be used as actual RAM memory? Like, alongside my current RAM sticks, can DVD-RAM be used as RAM too?
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If you could, it would be SLOW. No point. If you want to use disks, just get a Blu-ray burner. But I mean you can get like a 64gb USB memory stick for cheaper then 15 bucks. I would use a USB stick before having a bunch of stuff on CD/DVDs.

The only time I ever use DVDs (haven't used CDs in a few years) is if I burn something for someone else and giving it to them. Like Geoff above I do still burn large stuff to Blu-ray that I put up and keep.
 
The VCR King said:
Can DVD-RAM be used as actual RAM memory? Like, alongside my current RAM sticks, can DVD-RAM be used as RAM too?
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A 16x DVD-RAM can transfer at speed up to 21.13MB/s. A module of DDR3-1600 is 12.6GB/s.

Does this put it into perspective?
 
Not to mention, optical media has a much lower number of rewrites before they begin to fail than solid state flash.
 
Geoff said:
Not to mention, optical media has a much lower number of rewrites before they begin to fail than solid state flash.
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Also factor in errors associated with optics, moving parts, heat... if you could get it going, you'd have a computer whose HDD cache file is faster than its RAM for a time period on the order of minutes.
 
ScottALot said:
Also factor in errors associated with optics, moving parts, heat... if you could get it going, you'd have a computer whose HDD cache file is faster than its RAM for a time period on the order of minutes.
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I've been wasting my money all this time buying RAM when I could have just been buying HDD's!
 
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