P3D Re: Digital / film

[michaelk@xxxxxxxxxxx (Michael Kersenbrock)]

> hard disk.  Cartridges are $75 each, less if you buy in quantity.  This
> is not a CD-ROM drive, it is a true magnetic disk drive that happens to
> use swappable cartridges.  It performs just like a hard disk.

What's wrong with CD-ROM drives?  One of the several boring reasons I bought
a CDRW drive recently was to store images (um... stereo of course) , 
particularly  scanned ones that can get to be a bit large.

Write-only-once disk media stores 650-MB and costs between one and two dollars
per disk (my first thirty were free if Maxell sends me the rebate eventually).
I've purchased re-writable disks ( rewriteable > 1000 times) for $5 each at
Fry's and they hold a bit over 500-MB each.

So, for the CD-R disks, that's more than six megabytes of long-term "permanent"
storage per penny!  Even cheaper than that for my first 20-GB of Maxell disks.

:-)

Mike K.

P.S. - Starting to sound like SD-3D stuff..... if anybody wants more details,
       please followup to SD-3D.




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