Maxell LTO Ultrium 200 GB

Advantages: Fast
Disadvantages: Cost

...edge LTO tapes have a small spring loaded "door" at the side through which the tape is dispensed into the drive. So unlike your videos, which spool from one side to the other, this is spun out in one long line and then rewound. I could be totally wrong but Fuji and the other manufacturers are a little obscure on this! Enough of that anyway; what do you do with them? You copy your ever so precious data onto it. Now I'm willing to bet a penny to an LTO drive that your data isn't worth £3000+. Nope, didn't think so. But for business it is. Frequently it's worth a lot more than that. Your average home user will NEVER need this much storage capacity. Each tape has a native (I.E. Uncompressed) capacity of 200GB. Most home PCs don't even have hard drives that big. Compress the data and you can get a theoretical capacity of 400GB. More... Read review

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Advantages: Excellent quality
Disadvantages: Can only use the once

...I had recently bought a camcorder so that i was able to film my daughter growing up, at first i was considering paying £200.00 more than i payed for my dv camcorder so that i would be able to record directly onto dvds. My mother then advised me to buy a cd/dvd rewrited instead, this would then also enable us to make precious backups of all our dvds as we all are aware they are easily scratched. I went to a large computer store and managed to buy a cd/dvd rewritter for around £80.00 but i had no clue of what else i needed and at what quality. So i just picked up any balnd dvd and used these, they would have been the stores own make. I tried it on one of my own dvd's first before attempting my camcorder tapes just incase the quality wasn't good and i was glad of this as the quality was terrible. It actually took me two attempts... Read review

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Advantages: I find Maxell to be a reliable DVDR producer
Disadvantages: None as yet

...that have experienced difficulties. The most common deterioration problem is that you get a percentage of the way through the disc and suddenly the image freezes. I have never had one Maxell disc that has let me down, and as a result they are my one and only choice. Its pointless me discussing burn too times on a computer, because this varies from one PC to another depending on the type of recorder, the available space on your hard drive, and what else your PC is doing. But as a guide I have a Sony Vaio M1 PC which comes with all standard Sony components; I can record a full 4.7GB of data to a disc in about 20 minutes. I have copied certain DVDS which take 7-14 minutes to copy video content across. Standalone DVD recorders obviously record in real time. Worth pointing out is that DVD discs that are used over a period of weeks often get a bit... Read review

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