Posted by Warren Oates on 12/11/05 13:39

In article <%wVmf.1604$WM.39211@nasal.pacific.net.au>,
"mindesign" <seriph_I_SAID_NO_BLOODY_SPAM@consultant.com> wrote:

> A good friend of mine has burned in excess of 8000 discs on his Pioneer
> burner - just replaced it last week with a new dual layer 16 speed (I think)
> from Pioneer and sold his old one for $40!
>
> These products are NOT designed to fail after 40 burns, but maybe you are
> getting a build up of some kind of artefacts in your PC when trying to burn
> the same things repeatedly. His record for continuous burning is 110 discs.
> Same source - 3.7 gig each.
>

I think your friend was lucky. A "single-target" duplicator sells for
less than $300, and it's designed to be used over and over and over.

The product is "NOT designed to fail after 40 burns" for sure, but
they're not guaranteed to work in industrial situations.
--
W. Oates
"I thought I was the last son of Krypton,
but you people keep popping up." -- Clark Kent

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