Never corrupt data again
Ever turned a DVD into an cup coaster? All optical storage devices suffer from the possibility of corrupting the entire DVD at any time during writing. In fact out of every package of blank DVD's you buy, expect to lose a couple from defects in the material. And some simply happen because the computer did not have enough processing time to handle the load. called "Buffer overflow". Why is this? because for the most part optical blanks cannot be tested at the manufacturing site. And optical media cannot go back and check what it wrote until the entire session is done. Most people bypass the verify cycle because it takes as long as a normal read. Since it takes one hour or more just to fully write to a 25-50 gig HD DVD disk. Who's going to wait an extra 1 hour to burn and 1 hour to verify? (in many cases this can be 1 1/2 hours to burn. and 1 1/2 hours to verify) So like most of us you might skip the verify pass, praying that your data is there. Well sadly many times the burn said it was successful, but the data is not there. This wasn't so bad when it was just a few cents per blank. But now that HD DVD's are here with prices reaching 20-50 dollars. Burning a bad disk is out of the question!. Even if they come down to just 2-3 bucks a piece. This is out of the question!
Also consider that you probably had some extremely important data that you just deleted off your computer thinking that it was perfectly safe on your newly burned blank. After all that is the idea right? Did you know every time you burn a new session (to add data to a blank) you risk losing all the previous data? This is because it must append/create a new directory in place of the older successful directory session. Since optical media does not verify this critical phase, it happily informs your computer your new corrupt directory is to be used.
With 25-50 gigs available, your almost certainly going to burn in several sessions (maybe hundreds). The odds are against you that the next burn is going to take out all your data!
MediaCorder cartridges are tested from the factory, are completely re-usable, eraseable and never corrupts existing data because it always verifys on the fly! MediaCorders perform a read after write operation directly on the head. If data is ever written badly, this is detected instantly and data is written again. This means that there will be no suprises after you have written out everything, Even If there happens to be a bad spot on the tape, data is simply padded until there isn't. All done in the blink of an eye.
When comparing storage costs, figure in around 5-8% losses due to a bad burned blanks. With HDTC MediaCorders you can even hot swap a cartridge in mid-recording and not skip a beat!!! HDTC MediaCorders hands down are the best solution for large capacity removable storage.
| Medium | MediaCorder | External Hard disk | Blu-Ray | Blu-Ray DL | HD-DVD DL | CD | DVD |
| Type | Tape - Magnetic | Hard disk - Magnetic | Optical | Optical | Optical | Optical | Optical |
| Cost (US$) | $47.00 | $160.00 | $19.95 | $47.99 | $27.99 | $0.25 | $0.75 |
| Capacity (GigaByte) | 200GB/80GB | 200GB | 25GB | 50GB | 30GB | 0.7GB | 4.7GB |
| Price per Gigabyte | 23/58 cents | 80 cents | 80 cents | 96 cents | 93 cents | 35 cents | 15 cents |
| Archive life | 30+ yrs | 2-4 yrs | 2-4 yrs | 2-4 yrs | 2-4 yrs | 2-5 yrs | 2-5 yrs |
| Completely Rewritable | yes | yes | no | no | no | no | no |
| Can read/write natively with OS (no burning software) | yes | yes | no | no | no | no | no |
| Burn Failure Rate (corruption during writing) | Never fails | Never fails | unknown | unknown | unknown | 1 in 10 | 1 in 10 |
| Can withstand rough handling | yes | no | no | no | no | no | no |
