As it stands now, I would only consider the use of a different disk
technology called dvd-ram, but those units seem to be all setup to
operate in vcr mode for tv recording and such, none that I've seen
actually have a scsi or atapi interface available. But then the only
ones I've seen are the pioneers intended to be vcr workalikes. The
tv station has a 6 pack of those, and they are working pretty good
for program delay purposes in good old Never Twice Same Color mode...
The dvd-ram claims as much as 100k write cycles and unlimited reads,
where the dvd+-rw's I bought are only rated for maybe 1000 cycles.
So basicly I've relegated them to making an occasional linux install
dvd only. When they have been used up, no more of those will be
bought, I'll treat them all as throwaways like we do cd's.