How Rewritable are CD-RWs? (1 Viewer)

[Dan Mertz]

CD-RWs are supposed to be "rewritable". How rewirtable are they? Does that just mean I can keep adding files to it until its full, or does it mean I can keep removing files and/or record over files to make room for new files (kind of like a seperate mini hard drive)? Is there a limit to how often I can "rewirte" to it?

 

[noahG]

you can erase and rewrite to them, but you can't delete files from them like you would on a hard drive. You wouldn't want to use it like that either as it would be incredibly slow both reading and writing as compared to a hard drive. As for how many times you can re-write to them, I think it's somewhere in the thousands.

 

[PaulDA]

More than cassette tapes, less than a MiniDisc.