OT: Advice about CD RWs

Starhawk · #1 April 28th, 2005, 06:58 AM

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El_Phil said:
Fear the CD-RW! Unreliable beasts. If at all possible try and borrow a drive off a mate and copy them there. Or use CD-Rs, but so many mates have so many problems with CD-RWs that I wouldn't trust anything important to them.

Just my 2p(or 4cents) worth.

Oh I plan to ensure that everything is saved trust me

but I have friends that constantly put things on CD-RWs including picutres, uh though I do know some folks who no matter what CD-RW they got it was "blank" turns out they just didn't have the proper software to begin with....though it took them long enough to realize it lol.

El_Phil · #2 April 28th, 2005, 07:16 AM

It's not just problems copying, its the fact they are much more prone to suddenly stopping working or developing errors for no real reason. A CD-RW may work perfectly, you check it, do your wiping and then come back to it and its developed errors whilst sitting in its case.

Their fairly flaky and the problems are inherent in the technology. I'll take something I trust over the re-use. Besides I've still got a big stack of unused CD-Rs as I rarely use them.

NullAshton · #3 April 28th, 2005, 08:46 AM

CD-R's are cheap, so just use them.

AngleWyrm · #4 April 28th, 2005, 08:57 AM

Ok one thing is that it doesn't matter what you are putting on the disk. All the stuff is the same to the computer (just ones and zeros), so it doesn't matter if it's a picture, a piece of music, a text file, or movie or anything like that.

So that helps a little about things to think about when getting the disks.