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JAZ discs are the usual way of writing large files, at least in the
gigabyte range.  They are reasonably compact and re-writable.

If you go to the IOMEGA site, I will bet they tell how much you can
hold on each disc.
Carol Heckman
(Bowling Green State University)

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>Hi-
>This is totally off-topic, but have any of you used writable DVDs to
>store data?  I have people generating files too large for CDs.  We're
>running linux on a PC.  Or, are there any other good options out there
>for data storage (files about 1 GB).
>Thanks-
>Sarah
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