re: Digital Photo Discs won't "mount".
Wednesday, January 4, 2006 at 11:28 am
Windows 98 Annoyances Discussion Forum
Posted by C K
(6910 messages posted)
I've seen some articles on burning speed and other issues but I can't lay my hands
on them right now. From my own experience though, I can say that IME, slowing the
speed by at least half increases reliability, disc longevity against short term failure
and near zero coasters (1 in 500 or so). When I use the full burn speed, even on
TOTL (Top Of The Line) burners (even DVD) I can get unreliable results on CDRs.
Not only does the laser have to burn hotter at higher speeds, you get a problem of
"jitter" (out of balance media especially on older burners) and higher rotational
inaccuracy that can effect the accuracy/tracking of the laser and correct postioning
of the data.
DVDs are burned at a slower rotational speed which may all but eliminate balance
problems. Overall, it was recommended that media be burned slower than it's max
rating as well as slower than max for the recorders speed also. This was all covered
in the articles I have read... Here is an older article that covers archiving and
other issues. I'll see if I can find the others:
http://www.tasi.ac.uk/advice/delivering/pdf/cdr-dvdr.pdf
On Tuesday, January 3, 2006 at 4:20 pm, gewg_ wrote:
>|Media should be multi-archived as soon as possible
>|and duplicated to new media every few years to protect from loss.
>| C K
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>It can't be said often enough.
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>|If the laser is weak and was trying to write discs,
>|they may be readable and then start failing.
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>It has always seemed intuutive to me that the slowest burning speed available
>will give the most reliable results.
>Can anyone point to something empirical that supports this
>(or shoots holes in it)?
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