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Posted by Phisherman on 10/19/06 11:57
On Wed, 18 Oct 2006 22:56:44 GMT, Robert Peirce
<bob@peirce-family.com.invalid> 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.
>
>Also, do you have any favorite R/W DVDs I should consider? I imagine
>some are better than others on a write/dollar basis.
The quality of DVD brands vary, so if you value your data buy the best
you can find. I buy Yaiyo Yuden and have far fewer errors than other
brands. How many times you can re-write to a R/W depends on several
factors, but I have heard 1000 re-writes is close to the limit. I
wonder how anyone can keep track of that unless you are doing
something like a re-write once a day. Another good question is how
long can I expect a write-once DVD to reliably keep data? Ten years?
If you are looking for cheap high-capacity storage, it is hard to beat
tape.
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