CD-RW and DVD+RW/-RW Drives
Compared to floppy drives and some removable drives, CD-RW drives and their cousins, DVD+RW/-RW drives, can store large amounts of data and are useful for a home or small business. CD writers and media that were once very common are cheap if you can find them but are gradually disappearing, and automated CD changing machines, necessary for automatically backing up large amounts of data, are still quite costly, if you can find them at all. A benefit of CD and DVD storage over tape devices is that the archived uncompressed file system can be mounted and its files accessed randomly just like a hard drive (you do this when you create a data CD, see Chapter 5, “Multimedia Applications”), making the recovery of individual ...
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