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Posted by E. Barry Bruyea on 10/19/06 19:57
On Thu, 19 Oct 2006 11:57:20 GMT, Phisherman <noone@nobody.com> wrote:
>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.
I have generally been buying DVD+RW's on the cheap for the past couple
of years. We tend not to watch a lot of 'live' T.V. and record the
stuff we really want to watch at our convenience. I was finding that
after a while, I was getting 'Freezes' quite frequently. Sometimes
you get by them, other times, that was it. In March I bought a five
pack of Sony Accucore DVD+RW's to use for recording; out of curiosity,
I put labels on the case with numbers printed from 1-50 and ticked off
every time they were used. I got a high of 31 and a low of 25.
Interesting enough, I called Sony and after a couple of discussions
and one call back, I was told that 'that sounds just about right' in
regards usage. I don't know if there are brands that will last
longer, but at today's prices, it probably isn't worth it pay much of
a premium.
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