> 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."

> 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.

> I think Adaptec is the standard for CD-RW
> drives now, as mine cae with it, too, and it's
> the only CD-R(W) product I've seen in stores.

Yes, my PC came with Adaptec software.

> 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?

> ri "talks too much! :-)" a

Gri"no you don't"shny