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Posted by RMK on 10/18/06 23:17
On Wed, 18 Oct 2006 22:56:44 +0000, Robert Peirce wrote:
> This may have been covered before. If so, I missed it. Anyhow, I have
> some shows saved on Tivo that I want to put on DVD.
>
> About how many times do you find you can write to a R/W DVD before you
> start to get errors? With plain DVDs under $0.30, a R/W DVD is not very
> economical unless you can beat that. OTOH, after a while you will start
> to get unrecoverable failures. I would rather pitch them before that, but
> I don't want to do it too soon. I would hate to write a program to DVD
> and find I can't recover it. It wouldn't really cost me that much actual
> time. But it would be a royal pain to have to do it again.
I have found that DVD RWs have a lifespan in writes that is far longer
than CD RWs. Don't know why, but I used to have up to half of my
CDRWs (of many manufacturers and different drives) that would refuse to
write after one or two sessions.
I bought a 30 stack of DVD RWs months ago (Memorex) to use like we used
to use VCR tapes. That is, in time shifting. So far I have only used 5
platters and they have been rewritten dozens of times each. Not one has
gone bad yet. Go figure.
That being said, I would never put anything important on a DVD RW for long
term storage.
RMK
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