Zane H. Healy wrote:
I've sworn by Verbatium DataLifePlus blanks for
nearly 10 years, but
am a little nervous about the current ones after the last two on a
spindle woudln't burn for me (one that was even older burned just
fine).
They're not a problem. Neither are the ones that seemingly burn
and verify OK but fail when you test them in a DVD-ROM drive.
(I'm assuming that if you care enough to burn it to DVD-R,
you'll do a minimal amount of testing at creation!). The
problem ones are those that burn and test OK and then
die later.
So far I've only had one DVD-R go bad (that I know of) and two
CD-Rs (ditto) but I've not gone back and re-tested a representative
sample, I've just retrieved data and never found a dud other than
those mentioned above.
Naturally for data that I truly care about, I burn it twice.
I'll gather some real data when the successor to DVD-R is
firmly entrenched and I move data across from CD/DVD. Of course,
the problem then will be longevity of the new media format.
Antonio
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