packet writing for win2000?

[bluefrog5]

hey, i was reading the extensive post regarding the 92 minute movie and the 1.3gb disc and all that good stuff, but i was wondering if there was something like that cequadrat packetcd 3.0 for win2000. i desperately need something like this for backup purposes. thanks!

[CornelisJ]

Two programs that are comparable to PacketCd are Roxio's DirectCD, and Ahead's InCD (free for registered users of Nero). Both should work under Windows 2000. I know that DirectCD supports on-the-fly compression, I am not sure about InCD.

[bluefrog5]

and these let me burn more data to a disk?

[CornelisJ]

Yes, you can format a CD with DirectCD such, that it compresses files before writing them to the disc. Of course files that are already compressed like zip files will not be compressed any further. Other files like word documents are compressed by about a factor of two on average. You can store about 1000 MByte on a 74 minutes CD-RW.
I just checked, but InCD does not support file compression.

In my opinion the advantage of these packet CD writing programs is not so much the large storage capacity, but the fact that you can use a CD-RW like it were a large floppy disk.

<font size=-1>[ This Message was edited by: CornelisJ on 2001-10-10 17:36:31 ]</font>