> > With a CD-R disk, you can write to it once,
> > then pop it out (un-formatted) and later *add*
> > more to it, but you cannot delete or rewrite
> > data.
>
> Is that something that's fairly easy to do with Adaptec software? I wasn't aware of this ability; I thought CD-Rs were "one-shot (burn) and that's it."

Yes, it shouldn't be too hard to figure out. Just make sure that, when you eject the disk, you leave it so that it can be written to in the future. It will only be readable in the CD-RW drive until you close (meaning that you can't write to it again) the CD.

> > For data backup, CD-RWs *are* better,
> > especially if you want the data but don't want
> > it eating space on your hard drive (like Grish
> > is going to have a problem with that, with
> > eighty gigs! ;))
>
> But *why* are they better? For my purposes, I would think that CD-RWs would be better for sending jobs to the printer, presuming that I could get the disks back once they were finished with them. CD-Rs I would think were better for data backup, because basically, that's info that I don't need to keep on my system, and want to archive it.

Personally, I use CD-Rs for backing up data. I'm the type of person that would rather have multiple copies of backup discs. I label them with the date, and keep them, and I have no desire to write over the information. CD-RW discs just aren't my thing, I suppose.

> > I rather like it because it formats a disk so
> > that I can write to it using Windows Explorer,
> > as though it were on my hard drive.
>
> I assume one can only do this with a CD-RW disk, correct?

Nope, I do this with CD-Rs, too. It's just like moving information to a floppy disk, except that it holds a whole lot more space. If you're the visual type, you can open up two Explorer windows and drag files from one window to the CD. Of course, if you're using a CD-R disk, once you move the information to the CD, you can't remove it. You can "delete" stuff, but the space on the CD is not recovered.

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