The Joys of DVD writing

Last year, I struggled with the choice between getting an external hard drive and a DVD writer for my storage and archiving needs. At the time, the hard drive option won on a cost basis. Two weeks ago, I re-looked at the decision and this time, the DVD writer won out. Just how economical is the DVD writer nowadays? I bought my Imation brand DVD writer for just below RM200 (US$54). The clincher was the price of DVDR media - I bought a spindle of no-brand 50 discs for 80 sen (US21 cents) each. Prices for the DVDR has fallen lower than CDRs, on a megabyte-to-megabyte basis. So I've been spending my time converting my CDR archives into DVDRs. At a 6 to 1 ratio per disc, I'm looking at saving a whole lot of (physical) space. The high capacity is very convenient, too - I can fit a whole season of a TV series in just 2 discs. I have bought one (1!) DVD+RW disk to experiment as a straight work backup disk, but I don't expect to use it much at this point. The 160GB hard disk I bought earlier has found a new home as the main disk in my home computer. DVD writer