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 Posted by NoNoBadDog! on 10/06/15 11:51 
"kitekrazy" <kitekrazy@sbcglobal.net.nospam> wrote in message  
news:Zjdog.55014$fb2.44849@newssvr27.news.prodigy.net... 
> NoNoBadDog! wrote: 
>> "Bob" <spam@uce.gov> wrote in message  
>> news:44a01520.7253015@news-server.houston.rr.com... 
>> 
>>>On Sun, 25 Jun 2006 11:28:15 -0400, blank@adelphia.com wrote: 
>>> 
>>> 
>>>>>1.  You bought the cheapest discs available. 
>>> 
>>>>Not necessarily true. Sometime "name brand" discs go on sale, maybe 
>>>>for half of their regular price. But they are the same discs. They 
>>>>didnt go bad because somebody decided to have a sale. 
>>> 
>>>All discs are either crap or crap shoots with one notable exception: 
>>>Taiyo Yuden. 
>>> 
>>>http://club.cdfreaks.com/showthread.php?t=146146 
>>> 
>>>--  
>>> 
>>>"It's impossible to obtain a conviction for sodomy from 
>>>an English jury. Half of them don't believe that it can 
>>>physically be done, and the other half are doing it." 
>>>--Winston Churchill 
>> 
>> 
>> The poll you cited is not scientific. 
>> 
> 
> No but I'd rather trust a consumer than a scientist. 
> 
> 
>> While TY are good discs, there are others that have been tested to have  
>> superior archival quality. 
>> 
>> Also, for the OP.... 
>> 
>> Burning your discs at faster than 2X is also responsible.  The faster the  
>> burn speed, the less likely the disc is going to last for 2 or more  
>> years. 
>> 
> 
>  Not necessarily true. 
 
Please cite the validation for your claim? 
> 
>> I have CD discs that I burned in 1998; they are still working.  I keep  
>> them in a cool, dim place, and I recorded them at no more than 2X.  They  
>> are on a wide range of brands.  Point is, they all still work. 
>> 
>> Bobby 
>> 
>> 
> 
>  You didn't have much choice of burn speeds back then. 
 
I had 1x, 2x, or 4x (when the discs could be found).  I had an NEC internal  
4x and an NEC external 2x.   Even if 48x existed then, I would still have  
burned important data discs at 2x. 
 
 
Bobby
 
  
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